Patents Represented by Attorney Tina Kagi
  • Patent number: 6100819
    Abstract: The subject invention relates to methods and apparatus for monitoring and regulating the flow of traffic through intersections and specifically to an improved method and apparatus for automatically detecting and documenting disregard of traffic signals for purposes of prosecuting offenders and reducing the risk posed to the driving public posed by disregard of traffic signals without the need for police presence. The present invention comprises traffic signalization lights at adjacent street intersections; a traffic detection and speed measurement means; a traffic light state sensor means; and a traffic light delay means designed to coordinate the traffic detection and speed measurement means and timing of the traffic signalization lights and a recording means to document the license plate number of violating vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2000
    Assignee: Mark White
    Inventor: Mark White