ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,594, issued on June 24, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for determining road object importance based on forward facing and driver facing video data" was invented by Douglas Coimbra De Andrade (Florence, Italy), Francesco Sambo (Florence, Italy), Matteo Simoncini (Pistoia, Italy), Andrea Benericetti (Prato, Italy) and Leonardo Taccari (Florence, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may receive driver facing video data associated with a driver of a vehicle and forward facing video data associated with the vehicle, and may process the driver facing video data, with a...