US Patent Issued to Trimble on March 18 for "Determining vehicle turn difficulty using overhead images" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,373, issued on March 18, was assigned to Trimble Inc. (Westminster, Colo.).

"Determining vehicle turn difficulty using overhead images" was invented by Miles Carlsten (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are systems, methods, and other techniques for determining vehicle turn difficulty using overhead satellite imagery. In some implementations, an overhead image of a road intersection is obtained. A footprint of the road intersection is predicted using the overhead image. The footprint of the road intersection is analyzed to calculate one or more distances associated with a turn at the road intersection. A...