ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,119, issued on July 29, was assigned to Verizon Connect Development Ltd. (Dublin).
"Systems and methods for detecting vehicle tailgating" was invented by Tommaso Bianconcini (Florence, Italy), Stefano Caprasecca (Florence, Italy), Tommaso Mugnai (Florence, Italy), Luca Bravi (Scandicci, Italy), Francesco Sambo (Florence, Italy) and Leonardo Taccari (Florence, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may obtain video data associated with a driving event involving a first vehicle. The device may determine a vanishing point associated with the video data and may construct a cone of impact of the first vehicle based on the vanishing...