US Patent Issued to National Instruments on Oct. 21 for "Edge data reduction in automotive systems" (Oklahoma, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,998, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to National Instruments Corp. (Austin, Texas).

"Edge data reduction in automotive systems" was invented by Stephen Thung (Norman, Okla.), Kyle Ross Bryson (Austin, Texas), Walter Michael Altmann (Austin, Texas) and Peter Andrew Kurlak (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, computing devices, and software programs for identifying a driving scenario in real-time driving data. A driving scenario is received and translated into an ordered sequence of events that correspond to the driving scenario. A signal computation function is determined for each event in the sequence, which quantif...