US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 29 for "Roadside device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,399, issued on Sept. 29, 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: "The disclosure relates to a roadside device and a method for providing mobility-as-a-service. The roadside device includes a notification unit and a control unit. The control unit determines an operating state of the roadside device, and performs a notification process to the notification target person according to the determined operating state."

The p...