US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories on March 31 for "Systems and methods for guiding pedestrians to balance congestion" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,943, issued on March 31, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for guiding pedestrians to balance congestion" was invented by Marcel Menner (Arlington, Mass.) and Stefano Di Cairano (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A congestion control system configured to guide pedestrians to balance congestion throughout areas of a controlled environment is provided. The congestion control system is operatively connected to a plurality of sensors and a pedestrian guidance device. The sensors are configured to capture measurements corresponding to pedestrian congestion l...