US Patent Issued to TOMTOM TRAFFIC on Oct. 21 for "Methods and systems for generating revised jam conditions" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,004, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to TOMTOM TRAFFIC B.V. (Amsterdam).

"Methods and systems for generating revised jam conditions" was invented by Peter Mieth (Berlin), Stefan Lorkowski (Berlin), Ralf-Peter Schafer (Berlin) and Nikolaus Witte (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of generating map data indicating a deviation from expected jam conditions on a segment of a plurality of segments in an area covered by an electronic map, the segment having associated therewith a jam probability indicating the likelihood of a jam on that segment. The method comprises establishing an expected jam condition for the segment based ...