ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,384, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Jiangsu, China).

"Method and system for detecting abnormal traffic behavior" was invented by Yong Qi (Nanjing, China), Xin Zeng (Nanjing, China) and Yuan Zhuang (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses a method and a system for detecting an abnormal traffic behavior. The method of the present disclosure includes: retaining an abnormal static target vehicle in a traffic surveillance video in a background through background modeling; performing abnormal target detection, and obtaining a cropped picture of an abno...