US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Dec. 16 for "Information processing system for determining congestion due to overflow from exclusive turn lanes" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,755, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Information processing system for determining congestion due to overflow from exclusive turn lanes" was invented by Kiyoaki Morimoto (Kasugai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device includes a control unit configured to acquire an upstream end of a range of a right-turn or left-turn exclusive lane in response to occurrence of traffic congestion, and output information on the occurrence of the traffic congestion due to a vehicle overflowing the exclusive lane, in response to a predetermined first proportion or more of vehicles ...