ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,012, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY (Suzhou, China).

"Method and system for extracting OD locations of vehicle on expressway" was invented by Xiang Wang (Suzhou, China), Kexin Wang (Suzhou, China) and Xin Chu (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a method and system for extracting OD locations of a vehicle on an expressway. The method includes: acquiring mobile phone signaling data and license plate recognition data; preprocessing the signaling data and recognition data; segmenting mobile phone signaling data trajectories to obtain signaling data with a travel order; matching th...