US Patent Issued to Hubei University on Nov. 11 for "Traffic light timing control method and system" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,387, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Hubei University (Wuhan, China).

"Traffic light timing control method and system" was invented by Chuanxiang Ma (Wuhan, China), Wei Chen (Wuhan, China), Yan Zhang (Wuhan, China), Jiaqi Wan (Wuhan, China) and Shiyi Gan (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a traffic light timing control method and system, including the following steps: S1: completing monitoring of traffic flow, and recording and storing traffic flow data in each data collection gap; S2: dividing a historical dataset into a sample PA and a sample PB, and assigning a crowding level; S3: obtai...