US Patent Issued to Toyota Jidosha on Sept. 22 for "Vertical order determination for overlapping roadways" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,654, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vertical order determination for overlapping roadways" was invented by Alexander Christoph Schaefer (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to determining a vertical order of overlapping road segments. In one embodiment, a method includes generating connections between centroids based on at least an elevation difference, proximity, and forming a non-self-overlapping polygon. The centroids are vehicle positions along one or more roads. The non-self-overlapping polygon has sides that ma...