US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS, REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN on July 22 for "Optimizing traffic signal timing using vehicle telemetry data" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,764, issued on July 22, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit) and REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Optimizing traffic signal timing using vehicle telemetry data" was invented by Henry Xianghong Liu (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Xingmin Wang (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Zachary Jerome (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Vivek Vijaya Kumar (Shelby Township, Mich.), Fan Bai (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Zihao Wang (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Shengyin Shen (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for optimizing traffic signal timing using telemetry includes: wirelessly connected devices (WCDs), traffic operations centers...