US Patent Issued to NEC on Jan. 27 for "Traffic flow monitoring device, traffic flow monitoring method, and recording medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,899, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Traffic flow monitoring device, traffic flow monitoring method, and recording medium" was invented by Yuma Matsuda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The traffic flow monitoring device includes a detection unit that outputs a first comparison result, which is a result of comparing a first reference speed and an average speed at a first time, on the basis of speed data associating a time with an average speed of a vehicle travelling through a prescribed spot on a road, an approximate speed calculation unit that derives an approximate speed at the first time on the basis of...