ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,340, issued on May 20, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Control device, control system, control method, and road surface drive device" was invented by Shin Sakurada (Toyota, Japan), Kazuya Nishimura (Anjo, Japan) and Yuko Mizuno (Nagoya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device outputs control information to a sidewalk configured such that an inclination of a road surface is changeable. When the control device detects a wheelchair waiting on the sidewalk for crossing a road, the control device outputs, as the control information, information of instruction to reduce the inclination of the road surfac...