US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Oct. 28 for "Traffic management after an initial conflict event" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,371, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Traffic management after an initial conflict event" was invented by Seyhan Ucar (Mountain View, Calif.), Emrah Akin Sisbot (Mountain View, Calif.) and Kentaro Oguchi (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for programmatically determining traffic management operations in response to conflicts on a roadway. For example, the systems and methods may determine a first traffic management instruction for a first vehicle for a first conflic...