ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,044, issued on March 25, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).
"Method for quantifying extreme traffic behavior" was invented by Linus Hagvall (Gothenburg, Sweden), Emil Klintberg (Torslanda, Sweden), Oskar Wigstrom (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Fredrik Sandblom (Molndal, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for quantifying road user behavior, the method comprising; obtaining samples of road user behavior selecting a subset of the road user behavior samples such that the selected samples follow a pre-determined statistical extreme value distribution, parameterizing the pre-determined statistical extreme value ...