ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,003, issued on Oct. 21.

"Systems and methods for optimizing traffic flow based on future roadway conditions" was invented by Ricardo Sanchez Gomez (Austin, Texas), Alvaro Prieto Moneo (Austin, Texas) and Joseph Charles McKenzie (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosed technology relate to a system and methods for optimizing traffic flow along a roadway. The systems receive, from a connected-automated vehicle (CAV), a request for a travel time along a roadway having a managed lane and a general purpose lane. The system determines real-time traffic data, and using a trained machine learning model, predicts...