US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA on Feb. 24 for "All weather traffic monitoring with roadside infrastructure" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,061, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA (Columbia, S.C.).

"All weather traffic monitoring with roadside infrastructure" was invented by Sanjib Sur (Cayce, S.C.) and Hem K. Regmi (Columbia, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed system and methodology enable coexistence of networking and sensing on next-generation millimeter-wave (mmWave) picocells for traffic monitoring and pedestrian safety at intersections in all weather conditions. Existing wireless signal-based object detection systems suffer from limited resolution, and their outputs may not provide sufficient discriminatory information in...