ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,214, issued on July 29, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Road management apparatus and road management method" was invented by Hiroyuki Onimaru (Tokyo), Takeo Tokunaga (Tokyo), Atsuki Kakinuma (Tokyo), Yasuo Oishi (Tokyo) and Akira Iihoshi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A road management apparatus including a communication unit and a microprocessor. The microprocessor is configured to perform acquiring detection information via the communication unit, the detection information being information from a detection device mounted on each vehicle, and estimating a traveling lane on which each vehicle travels based on ...