US Patent Issued to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE on Aug. 26 for "Estimation method, estimation apparatus and estimation program of cause of line of vehicles" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,030, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE Corp. (Tokyo).

"Estimation method, estimation apparatus and estimation program of cause of line of vehicles" was invented by Kohei Mori (Tokyo), Kazuaki Obana (Tokyo), Takahiro Hata (Tokyo), Yuki Yokohata (Tokyo) and Aki Hayashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An estimation method includes acquiring sensor information acquired by a sensor mounted on a first vehicle belonging to a vehicle line, acquiring position information on a location of the first vehicle, and estimating a cause of the vehicle line by using the sensor information and the position informat...