US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 8 for "Marking line detection device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,724, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Marking line detection device" was invented by Masamichi Ohsugi (Sunto-gun Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a marking line detection device for detecting a marking line in front of a vehicle. The marking line detection device includes: a known marking line recognition unit configured to recognize a known marking line in front of the vehicle based on past marking line detection information or map information including marking line information and location information of the vehicle; a marking line detection unit configured to ...