ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,990, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan) and SOKEN INC. (Nisshin-city, Japan).
"Driving assistance device" was invented by Masaya Okada (Nisshin-city, Japan), Akihiro Hayashi (Kariya-city, Japan) and Kunihiko Chiba (Kariya-city, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving assistance device includes an object detection unit configured to detect a hazardous object that is capable of causing an accident in a path of a subject vehicle and surroundings of the path, and an evasive driving detection unit configured to detect features of driver's evasive driving, in which a driver of the subject vehicle perfo...