ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,260, issued on June 30, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan).

"Vehicle congestion determination device and vehicle display control device" was invented by Tatsuya Okuno (Kariya-city, Japan), Yusuke Miyake (Kariya-city, Japan), Toshiharu Shiratsuchi (Kariya-city, Japan), Shiori Maneyama (Kariya-city, Japan) and Kazuki Izumi (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle congestion determination device includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire a first information indicating an occurrence of traffic congestion based on a first threshold value and a second information indicating the occurrence of traff...