US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Nov. 4 for "Traffic prediction system, traffic prediction method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,675, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Traffic prediction system, traffic prediction method, and program" was invented by Masaki Yamada (Nagoya, Japan), Yuji Tamura (Saitama, Japan), Ryota Horiguchi (Matsudo, Japan) and Koji Takahashi (Ichikawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A traffic data acquisition unit acquires traffic volume data. A required time acquisition unit acquires an actual value of a required time. A traffic volume calculation unit calculates an inflow traffic volume of vehicles flowing into each using the traffic volume data and the actual value of the required time. A traffi...