US Patent Issued to Hitachi on Sept. 15 for "Traffic control system and traffic control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,163, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Hitachi Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Traffic control system and traffic control method" was invented by Tasuku Ishigooka (Tokyo) and Satoshi Otsuka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A traffic control system includes a mobile body, an infrastructure sensor that monitors the mobile body and a pedestrian within a field, and a safety monitoring device that communicates wirelessly with the mobile body. The safety monitoring device includes a rule violation detection unit that detects, based on output from the infrastructure sensor, a rule violation by the mobile body or the pedestrian, and a safe action ins...