US Patent Issued to TomTom Global Content on Nov. 4 for "Method and processing system for processing probe data and probe" (Belgian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,680, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to TomTom Global Content B.V. (Amsterdam).

"Method and processing system for processing probe data and probe" was invented by Jean-Claude Mattelaer (Gentbrugge, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing system processes probe data to determine a change in a number of vehicles parked in an area, the probe data comprising information on probe traces for a plurality of probes. The processing system identifies occurrence of an event based at least on the determined change in the number of vehicles parked in the area. The processing system causes the identified occurrence of the event to be use...