US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA on Jan. 20 for "Identifying roadway concerns and taking preemptive actions" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,509, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas).

"Identifying roadway concerns and taking preemptive actions" was invented by Sachin J. Ahire (Frisco, Texas), Manoj Kalamkar (McKinney, Texas) and Christopher J. Risberg (Flower Mound, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation may include one or more of identifying a person as a roadway obstruction via a transport moving along the roadway, determining a first threat level of the person at a first time, via the transport, when the first threat level is above a threshold, indicating via the transport, to alert at least one of an occu...