US Patent Issued to HansaTekNetics on June 3 for "Method of generating bidirectional green waves of traffic by alternating lights in zones" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,286, issued on June 3, was assigned to HansaTekNetics LLC (San Marcos, Calif.).

"Method of generating bidirectional green waves of traffic by alternating lights in zones" was invented by Georg Schlueter (San Marcos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of managing traffic lights that generates waves of unimpeded traffic in both directions of a roadway. The roadway is divided into an even number of zones of equal length, which are divided into two groups of alternating zones. A traffic speed and a traffic light duration are selected so that the zone length equals the traffic speed times the light duration. Initially all light...