US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 28 for "Vehicle determination device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,783, issued on July 28, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle determination device" was invented by Takuro Kikuchi (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The processor of ECU includes: a traffic light determination unit that determines whether or not a traffic light in front of the vehicle indicates that the vehicle can pass; an other-vehicle behavior determination unit that determines the behavior of the other vehicle existing in the vicinity of the vehicle; and a passableness determination unit that, when it is determined that the traffic light indicates that the vehicle can pass, determines whether o...