US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on March 18 for "Calculating traffic flow changes due to traffic events" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,766, issued on March 18, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Calculating traffic flow changes due to traffic events" was invented by Kenichi Takasaki (Tokyo), Shoichiro Watanabe (Tokyo), Sanehiro Furuichi (Tokyo) and Yasutaka Nishimura (Yamato, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for calculating traffic flow changes includes detecting a traffic event. The method further includes determining an affected area of the traffic event and determining an investigation area based on the affected area. The method further includes selecting at least one vehicle located within the investigation area ...