US Patent Issued to NEC on Jan. 13 for "Method, apparatus and system for adaptively controlling traffic signals" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,125, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method, apparatus and system for adaptively controlling traffic signals" was invented by Yew Chong Raymond Leong (Singapore) and Srihari Mohan (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Present disclosure provides methods and apparatuses for adaptively controlling traffic signals. A method for adaptively controlling traffic signals based on a traffic control plan comprises identifying, by a processor, an external intervention occurring at an intersection, the external intervention causing traffic control behaviour at the intersection that deviates from the traffic control pla...