US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 22 for "Method for monitoring vehicles" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,958, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Method for monitoring vehicles" was invented by Toshiki Kashiwakura (Tokyo-to, Japan), Chihiro Inaba (Tokyo-to, Japan), Shoi Suzuki (Tokyo-to, Japan), Tsuyoshi Okada (Nagoya, Japan) and Yasuhiro Kobatake (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method executed by a computer capable of communicating with one or more automated driving vehicles and one or more roadside apparatuses includes storing information indicating an installation position and a detection area of each of the road side apparatuses, monitoring positional information for each of the...