ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,887, issued on March 17, was assigned to Applied Information Inc. (Suwanee, Ga.).

"Systems, methods, and devices for communication between traffic controller systems and mobile transmitters and receivers" was invented by Bryan Patrick Mulligan (Suwanee, Ga.) and Iain Jeffrey Mulligan (Alpharetta, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method in which one or more processing devices perform operations may include receiving, at a traffic controller unit associated with a traffic-signaling device, information associated with a traffic-related triggering event. The computer-implemented method may also include determini...