ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,599, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to S&P Global Inc. (New York).
"Dynamic down sampling of position tracking data" was invented by Barnaby Scott Parker (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Dynamically down sampling vehicle tracking data is provided. The method comprises receiving an original set of position data points from a vehicle, including a first and last data point. Each data point includes a timestamp. A path for the vehicle in four-dimensional hyperspace is simplified from the original set of points according to the Ramer-Douglas-Peucker algorithm. Positions are converted to three-dimension coordinates on a spher...