ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,379, issued on April 14, was assigned to Urban Software Institute GmbH (Chemnitz, Germany).

"Computer system and method for determining reliable vehicle control instructions using traffic signal information" was invented by Jurgen Muck (Munich), Aristotelis Hadjakos (Detmold, Germany), Stefan Radomski (Garching Bei Munchen, Germany) and Michele Piccolini (Garching Bei Munchen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described techniques receive signal state data from a controller controlling one or more signal groups of a traffic light system, with a current signal state of respective signal groups, and information about the time int...