US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Sept. 23 for "Identifying and quantifying congestion within a traffic stream" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,090, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Identifying and quantifying congestion within a traffic stream" was invented by Richard Gordon (Canton, Mich.), Donald K. Grimm (Utica, Mich.) and Fan Bai (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of identifying and quantifying congestion within a traffic stream including obtaining telemetric data from a plurality of vehicles traveling within a plurality of normalized road segments, determining a property of each normalized road segment based on the telemetric data and a road profile for each road segment, determining ...