ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,680, issued on March 18, was assigned to NIO TECHNOLOGY (ANHUI) Co. LTD (Hefei, China).

"Traffic flow machine-learning modeling system and method applied to vehicles" was invented by Ping Zhou (Hefei, China) and Siwei Peng (Hefei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a traffic flow machine-learning modeling system and method applied to vehicles. The system includes: a target fusion module configured to perform target fusion on radar measurement data and camera measurement data, and output target attribute information; a lane line model module configured to output an original lane line model based on the came...