ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,392, issued on May 20, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Mobility system and server" was invented by Shunsuke Mogi (Chofu, Japan), Shuta Yokota (Susono, Japan), Susumu Oikawa (Yokohama, Japan), Takahiro Sakamoto (Mishima, Japan), Miyu Haga (Atsugi, Japan), Kenjo Miyashita (Susono, Japan), Naotoshi Kadotani (Mishima, Japan) and Satoshi Omi (Ebina, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile object is configured to transmit, in response to a gesture of a traffic participant existing in the vicinity of the mobile object being a stop request, an inquiry signal including position information of the traffic participan...