ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,223, issued on May 20, was assigned to INVISION AI INC. (Toronto).

"Road side vehicle occupancy detection system" was invented by Karim Ali (Toronto), Zhijie Wang (Mississauga, Canada), Seydi Zorlu (Whitby, Canada), Arash Mohtat (North York, Canada) and Carlos Becker (Lausanne, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for detecting occupancy of a vehicle travelling in a direction of travel along a road. The system includes a roadside imaging device positioned on a roadside, and a first roadside light emitter, and a roadside vehicle detector. A processor is configured to receive a signal from the roadside vehicle detector, ...