US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 22 for "Traffic facility control system, traffic facility control method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,763, issued on July 22, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Traffic facility control system, traffic facility control method, and program" was invented by Issei Nakashima (Tokyo-to, Japan), Toru Miyagawa (Seto, Japan), Hideo Hasegawa (Nagoya, Japan), Yusuke Kinoshita (Tokyo-to, Japan), Bing Xue (Tokyo-to, Japan), Yuta Mori (Urayasu, Japan) and Takashi Homma (Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a traffic facility control system capable of achieving both ensuring of physical safety of a moving person and reduction of a psychological burden on the moving person. The traffic facility control sy...