ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,431, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota Aichi-ken, Japan).

"System and method for associating lane boundary lines" was invented by Alexander C Schaefer (Fremont, Calif.) and Ryan M. Wiesenberg (South Lyon, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for associating lane boundary lines with each other are described. In one example, a system includes a processor and a memory having instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to segment boundary lines by a fixed length to generate segmented boundary lines and associate at least a portion of the segmented boundary lines ...