US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Aug. 18 for "Detecting, monitoring and mitigating traffic control device anomalies" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,859, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Detecting, monitoring and mitigating traffic control device anomalies" was invented by Michael Wahlstrom (Wolverine Lake, Mich.), Fan Bai (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Shuqing Zeng (Sterling Heights, Mich.), Donald K. Grimm (Utica, Mich.) and Paul E. Krajewski (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cloud-based network device includes: a reporting module configured to receive first perception information regarding a target traffic control device from a scouter vehicle indicating an anomaly associated with the target traffic control device; at least on...