ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,757, issued on March 25, was assigned to THI CONSULTANTS INC. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Bidirectional interactive traffic-control management system" was invented by Chi-Hong Ho (Taipei, Taiwan), Jun-Shian Lee (Taipei, Taiwan), Hsin-Chia Lin (Taipei, Taiwan), Chih-Che Su (Taipei, Taiwan), Yi-Dar Lin (Taipei, Taiwan) and I-Ying Chen (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bidirectional interactive traffic-control management system includes a road and traffic network information subsystem, an urban traffic control subsystem and a road-users' route guidance subsystem. The first subsystem forms real-time traffic information of all road...