ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,267, issued on March 3, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Intersecting road detection device, intersecting road detection method, and non-transitory recording medium" was invented by Masamichi Ohsugi (Shizuoka-ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A intersecting road detection device calculates the width of road pixels at first and second positions in a traveling direction of a host vehicle based on the road pixels corresponding to roads included in a host vehicle front image, calculates the width of the road pixels at a third position in the traveling direction of the host vehicle based on the road pixels, es...