US Patent Issued to KYOCERA on April 29 for "Traffic communication system, base station, vehicle, mobile station, and message transmission method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,143, issued on April 29, was assigned to KYOCERA Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Traffic communication system, base station, vehicle, mobile station, and message transmission method" was invented by Takatoshi Yoshikawa (Hirakata, Japan) and Jun Shimamura (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A roadside unit 40 that controls a traffic safety apparatus provided at a railroad crossing 150 at which a general road 120 on which a vehicle 20 travels and a railroad track 110 on which a railroad vehicle 10 given priority over the vehicle 20 travels intersect receives a first message from the railroad vehicle 10. The first message includes an ...