ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,772, issued on July 21, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-ken, Japan).
"Information processing device" was invented by Hironobu Kitaoka (Nisshin, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device for calculating a travel time that is a time from a predetermined point to arrival at a target point by a vehicle traveling on a road, the information processing device comprising: a control unit configured to estimate a traffic flow rate that is a number of vehicles passing through the target point within a predetermined unit time; estimate a first traffic amount that is a number of vehicles in a first section t...