US Patent Issued to Malikie Innovations on Jan. 13 for "Processing data for driving automation system" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,246, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Malikie Innovations Ltd. (Dublin).

"Processing data for driving automation system" was invented by Adam John Boulton (Wirral, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of processing data for a driving automation system, the method comprising steps of: obtaining image data from a camera of an autonomous vehicle, AV; image processing the image data to obtain a vehicle registration mark, VRM, of another vehicle within the surrounding area of the AV; looking up the VRM in a vehicle information database to obtain information indicative of the make, the model and the date of manufacture o...