US Patent Issued to NEC on Dec. 30 for "Traffic control apparatus, traffic control system, and traffic control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,110, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Traffic control apparatus, traffic control system, and traffic control method" was invented by Masayuki Sakata (Tokyo), Takashi Yamane (Tokyo), Takanori Iwai (Tokyo), Yusuke Shinohara (Tokyo), Kosei Kobayashi (Tokyo) and Koichi Nihei (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A traffic control apparatus includes state specifying means for specifying a state of a vehicle based on peripheral information about the vehicle received from the vehicle that can be autonomously driven, state comparison means for comparing a first specified vehicle state, which is a state of the vehicle sp...