US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Oct. 20 for "Traffic control device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,501, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Traffic control device" was invented by Takahiro Aoki (Saitama, Japan), Ibuki Shimada (Miyoshi, Japan), Hirohito Ide (Nagoya, Japan), Seiji Suyama (Nagakute, Japan), Kiyotaka Moriizumi (Nisshin, Japan), Kazuyuki Inoue (Nagoya, Japan), Tomokazu Maya (Nagoya, Japan) and Naoya Oka (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The traffic control device includes a control unit that identifies one vehicle at a time, acquires vehicle information indicating a safety-related function mounted on the identified vehicle for each vehicle, selects a vehicle that imposes...