US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Toyota Jidosha on Sept. 9 for "Providing a virtual railroad crossing warning" (California, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,875, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota Aichi-ken, Japan).

"Providing a virtual railroad crossing warning" was invented by Rohit Gupta (Santa Clara, Calif.), Benjamin Piya Austin (Saline, Mich.), William Patrick Garrett (Plymouth, Mich.) and Philip J. Babian (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to improving the communication of a railroad crossing warning. In one embodiment, a method includes identifying a railroad crossing in a path of a road user. The me...