US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA, DENSO on June 16 for "Stop line detection apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,934, issued on June 16, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Stop line detection apparatus" was invented by Makoto Kawaharada (Susono, Japan), Akihiro Watanabe (Tokyo), Hiroaki Shimizu (Susono, Japan), Ichiro Matsuyama (Kawasaki, Japan), Masaki Kishimoto (Tokyo), Masamichi Ohsugi (Sunto-gun, Japan), Masateru Udate (Tokyo), Satoshi Takeyasu (Musashino, Japan), Takahiro Doi (Tokyo) and Takashi Morimoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stop line detection apparatus recognizes a boundary line of a lane on which the host vehicle travels, and detect a stop line at an intersection in f...