US Patent Issued to Thrugreen on Aug. 19 for "Virtual gate system of connected traffic signals, dynamic message signs and indicator lights for managing traffic" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,309, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Thrugreen LLC (Manassas, Va.).

"Virtual gate system of connected traffic signals, dynamic message signs and indicator lights for managing traffic" was invented by David Nguyen (Southbridge, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for adaptively controlling traffic control devices having a traffic signal system, a computing network, and a communication system is configured to restrict traffic in one or more directions through a junction and to selectively allow traffic through the restricted directions based, in part, on an identity or action of certain traffic. The traffic signal system is ...