ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,821, issued on June 17, was assigned to Hayden AI Technologies Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for enforcing traffic congestion pricing" was invented by Christopher Carson (Oakland, Calif.), Vaibhav Ghadiok (Mountain View, Calif.) and Bo Shen (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems and methods for alleviating traffic congestion within an enforcement zone. In some embodiments, a system for alleviating traffic congestion within an enforcement zone comprises a server and a plurality of edge devices coupled to carrier vehicles deployed within the enforcement zone. The edge devices can be ...