US Patent Issued to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey on Sept. 30 for "Vehicular information systems and methods" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,087, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, N.J.).

"Vehicular information systems and methods" was invented by Marco Gruteser (Princeton, N.J.) and Suhas Mathur (Piscataway, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method and system that receives sensor information from each of a plurality of sensors. Each sensor in the plurality is associated with a vehicle. The sensor information includes location coordinates of each vehicle in the plurality. The sensor information associated with each vehicle in the plurality then is translated to parking statistics information. I...