US Patent Issued to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE on Oct. 28 for "Training method and system for optimization of traffic signal" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,370, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Training method and system for optimization of traffic signal" was invented by Hun Soon Lee (Daejeon, South Korea) and Moonyoung Chung (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a training method for the optimization of a traffic signal. The method includes segmenting a large-scale road network into intersection groups each including a plurality of intersections, training a reinforcement learning model by allocating a training agent to each intersection group, performing traffic signal control ...