US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 1 for "Roadside device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,514, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Roadside device" was invented by Toshiki Kashiwakura (Tokyo), Chihiro Inaba (Tokyo), Shoi Suzuki (Tokyo), Tsuyoshi Okada (Nagoya, Japan) and Yasuhiro Kobatake (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A roadside device provided at a position where a pedestrian crosses a road, wherein the control unit acquires information including a plurality of items related to approach of an automated driving vehicle approaching the position and information indicating whether a preceding vehicle of the automated driving vehicle has stopped in front of the position, no...