US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Dec. 2 for "Travel route guidance device and travel route guidance method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,092, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Travel route guidance device and travel route guidance method" was invented by Kazunori Sakai (Nissin, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The traveling route guidance device includes a route acquisition unit that acquires a plurality of traveling routes from a current position of the vehicle to a destination, a gradient distribution acquisition unit that acquires a distribution of a gradient of each road surface of the plurality of traveling routes, a vehicle speed acquisition unit that acquires a vehicle speed of another vehicle traveling on each of the pl...