ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,304, issued on Aug. 4.

"Artificial intelligence (AI) based smart traffic management" was invented by Manav Damani (Hyderabad, India), Puneeth Sarma Nimmaraju (Hyderabad, India), Nityashree Vangala (Hyderabad, India) and Vaishnavi Simran Palreddy (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An Artificial Intelligence (AI) based traffic management system identifies traffic entities including vehicles and people in image data streams obtained from a plurality of cameras installed at traffic signals at an intersection. The traffic management system includes different object detection models for identifying different types of vehicles ...