US Patent Issued to NEC on Aug. 11 for "Signal control system, apparatus, method, and computer-readable medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,977, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Signal control system, apparatus, method, and computer-readable medium" was invented by Nobuyuki Tozawa (Tokyo), Satoshi Kimura (Tokyo), Ryota Horiguchi (Tokyo) and Morihisa Iijima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first sensor detects a vehicle present in a lane in which a vehicle entering an intersection from a first direction is able to cross an opposite lane and turn right or left, and a vehicle entering the lane. A second sensor measures a flow of traffic of an oncoming vehicle that travels in an opposite lane from a second direction, enters the intersection, and ...