US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Dec. 16 for "Support target intersection extraction system and vehicle support device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,762, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Support target intersection extraction system and vehicle support device" was invented by Fumio Sugaya (Susono, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A support target intersection extraction system that extracts a support target intersection that is a target of vehicle support in a support target vehicle among intersections included in map information includes: a priority road extraction unit that extracts a priority road among roads connected to the intersection, based on position information, travel information, and the map information acquired from a plur...