US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 14 for "Traffic congestion detection system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,744, issued on July 14, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Traffic congestion detection system" was invented by Yusuke Yamaura (Meguro-ku, Japan), Tatsuya Sonobe (Shinagawa-ku, Japan), Yasumasa Kobayashi (Edogawa-ku, Japan) and Shintaro Fukushima (Bunkyo-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A traffic congestion detection system including a server device, the server device includes at least one processor, the at least one processor being configured to perform commands: acquiring pieces of traveling data from a plurality of vehicles; generating first traffic congestion detection information based on at least part...