ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,463, issued on April 29, was assigned to BlackBerry Ltd. (Waterloo, Canada).

"Method and system for traffic management" was invented by Michael Peter Montemurro (Toronto), James Randolph Winter Lepp (Ottawa), Claude Jean-Frederic Arzelier (Molieres-sur-Ceze, France), Gordon Peter Young (Kineton, Great Britain), Adrian Buckley (Tracy, Calif.) and Jeffrey Scott Dever (Kanata, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method at a first computing device providing a local traffic service, the method including detecting a vehicle is transitioning to a region of control of a second local traffic service; and providing, to a second traffic mana...