US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Toyota Jidosha on Aug. 11 for "Methods and systems for estimating lane-level traffic jam using lane change signals of connected vehicles" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,973, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Methods and systems for estimating lane-level traffic jam using lane change signals of connected vehicles" was invented by Yashar Zeiynali Farid (San Jose, Calif.), Emrah Akin Sisbot (Menlo Park, Calif.), Divya Sai Toopran (San Jose, Calif.) and Kentaro Oguchi (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for estimating a lane-level traffic jam is provided. The system includes one or more processors programmed to obtain information on lane changes of the vehicles in ...