ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,808, issued on April 22, was assigned to Nissan North America Inc. (Franklin, Tenn.).
"Road user categorization through monitoring" was invented by Sachin Hagaribommanahalli (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Christopher Ostafew (Mountain View, Calif.) and David Ilstrup (Santa Cruz, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Categorizing driving behaviors of other road users includes maintaining a first history of first lateral-offset values of a road user with respect to a center line of a lane of a road; determining a first pattern based on the first history of the first lateral-offset values; determining a driving behavior of the road user based on t...