ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,336, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY (Hangzhou, China).

"Road traffic incident detection method, system and device based on small sample learning" was invented by Sheng Jin (Hangzhou, China), Congcong Bai (Hangzhou, China), Jun Jing (Hangzhou, China), Yang Jiang (Hangzhou, China), Wentong Guo (Hangzhou, China) and Mengtao Zhou (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a road traffic incident detection method, system and device based on small sample learning. According to the invention, traffic flow data and incident data are utilized to construct non-incident samples by a case contrast study me...