US Patent Issued to Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University on June 23 for "Method for assessing shock wave patterns at a traffic intersection" (Saudi Arabia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,887, issued on June 23, was assigned to Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

"Method for assessing shock wave patterns at a traffic intersection" was invented by Wael Mohamad ElSayed Eldessouki (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for level of service assessment at signalized intersections is disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment, a method for estimating an average delay per vehicle at a signalized intersection with a traffic signal, including sampling vehicle arrival rates at the signalized intersection, sampling vehicle departure rates at the signalized intersection, ...