ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,964, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Identification system" was invented by Tetsuro Sugiura (Chofu, Japan), Nobutsugu Maruiwa (Mishima, Japan), Tatsuya Sugano (Shizuoka-ken, Japan), Soichiro Oura (Chofu, Japan), Hiroya Chiba (Fuji, Japan) and Ryuji Okamura (Gotemba, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The identification system includes a vehicle and an infrastructure device installed in a predetermined area. A first device that is one of the vehicle and the infrastructure device includes an output device configured to output an electromagnetic wave or a sound wave that is not for wireless com...