US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor North America, Toyota Jidosha on June 23 for "Systems and methods for characterizing road segment difficulty" (Texas, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,274, issued on June 23, was assigned to Toyota Motor North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Systems and methods for characterizing road segment difficulty" was invented by Anna D. Shelukha (Lewisville, Texas), Joshua Daniel Payne (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Aaron Douglas Miers (The Colony, Texas) and Juan Angel Acosta Meza (The Colony, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to improving vehicle control in relation to curved roadways. In one embodiment, a method includes, in response to determining a route for a vehicle that is represented using...