US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on July 21 for "Initiating traffic signal timing plan generation" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,773, issued on July 21, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Initiating traffic signal timing plan generation" was invented by Vivek Vijaya Kumar (Shelby Township, Mich.), Donald K. Grimm (Utica, Mich.) and Fan Bai (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating a traffic signal timing plan may include determining a current traffic metric. The method further may include identifying a timing plan generation trigger. The method further may include determining at least one historic traffic metric. The method further may include generating the traffic signal timing plan based at least i...