US Patent Issued to BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM on June 3 for "Systems and methods for controlling the flashing yellow left turn signal at traffic intersections to improve pedestrian safety" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,287, issued on June 3, was assigned to BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, Texas).

"Systems and methods for controlling the flashing yellow left turn signal at traffic intersections to improve pedestrian safety" was invented by Pengfei Li (Southlake, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a system and method for controlling flashing yellow arrow signals at a traffic intersection are configured to monitor a crosswalk that extends across one or more lanes of a crossroad onto which left turning vehicles can turn left, determine when a pedestrian cross button associated with the crosswalk has been pr...