ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,223, issued on May 27, was assigned to Verizon Connect Development Ltd. (Dublin).

"System for automatic stop sign violation identification" was invented by Luca Bravi (Scandicii, Italy), Luca Kubin (Collecchio, Italy), Leonardo Taccari (Florence, Italy), Francesco Sambo (Florence, Italy), Matteo Simoncini (Pistoia, Italy), Douglas Coimbra De Andrade (Florence, Italy) and Stefano Caprasecca (Florence, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may determine, for each frame of a plurality of frames of image data associated with a vehicle, a probability that each frame of the plurality of frames that includes an image of a stop sign ...