US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on April 8 for "Apparatus, method, and computer program for generating lane network" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,678, issued on April 8, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Apparatus, method, and computer program for generating lane network" was invented by Mamoru Tsukamoto (Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for generating a lane network includes a processor configured to calculate, for each of individual points in a predetermined region connecting an entry lane and an exit lane, a probability distribution indicating a probability that the point lies on a standard trajectory, based on trajectories of one or more vehicles that traveled through the region, generate two virtual borders each connecting th...