US Patent Issued to ITRON on July 15 for "Control of street lights to indicate priority routes in smart cities" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,824, issued on July 15, was assigned to ITRON INC. (Liberty Lake, Wash.).

"Control of street lights to indicate priority routes in smart cities" was invented by Rajeshkumar Vallabhbhai Viradia (Bangalore, India), Prasad Deshpande (Bengaluru, India) and Ashwinkumar V. Kupsad (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments relate to methods and systems of using street lights to indicate emergency or other priority routes along a route in a network of streets. In one example, a central controller receives a request to indicate a priority route, for use by one or more vehicles. The central controller queries a databa...