US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Oct. 14 for "Automated road incident detection using vehicle sensor data" (Romanian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,660, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Automated road incident detection using vehicle sensor data" was invented by Leon Oliver Stenneth (Chicago), Catalin Bogdan Capota (Palatine, Ill.), Elena-Roxana Fuiorea (Timis, Romania), Alexandru Cristian (Timis, Romania) and Roxana-Maria Iliese (Jud. Suceava, Romania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for automated road incident detection using vehicle sensor data to detect road incidents in real time. The vehicle sensor data is provided from sensors on vehicles on the road segment. The me...