US Patent Issued to DENSO, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on April 7 for "Driving assistance device and driving assistance method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,937, issued on April 7, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Driving assistance device and driving assistance method" was invented by Tomohiko Inoue (Kariya-city, Japan), Youhei Masui (Kariya-city, Japan), Hiroaki Niino (Kariya-city, Japan), Yuki Tezuka (Toyota, Japan), Naoki Kusumoto (Toyota, Japan) and Yuuji Kosaka (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving assistance device includes a determination unit that determines whether a brake light of a preceding vehicle located in front of a vehicle is turned on, based on a lighting state of a headlight of the preced...