ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,993, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Systems and methods for configuring a hierarchical traffic management system" was invented by Yashar Zeiynali Farid (Berkeley, Calif.), Emrah A. Sisbot (Menlo Park, Calif.), Xiaofei Cao (Mountain View, Calif.), Haritha Muralidharan (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Kentaro Oguchi (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods described herein relate to configuring a hierarchical traffic management system. One embodiment receives, at a cloud server, a request fr...