US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA on July 14 for "Assisted traffic management" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,754, issued on July 14, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas).

"Assisted traffic management" was invented by Seyhan Ucar (Mountain View, Calif.), Takamasa Higuchi (Mountain View, Calif.) and Onur Altintas (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for implementing traffic management techniques in connected, but not necessarily autonomous vehicles. In accordance with one embodiment, a method comprises determining a first vehicle instruction based on vehicle-related data; transmitting the first vehicle instruction to a first vehicle; when t...