US Patent Issued to DENSO, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on June 9 for "Driving assistance system, driving assistance device, driving assistance method, and storage medium storing driving assistance program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,470, issued on June 9, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Driving assistance system, driving assistance device, driving assistance method, and storage medium storing driving assistance program" was invented by Sho Yoshida (Tokyo), Tomohito Terazawa (Tokyo) and Yuta Ikezawa (Susono, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving assistance system includes a processor configured to cause the system to execute deceleration control according to a distance from a vehicle to a specific area which is switchable between a crossing allowable state and a crossing prohibited state, obtain s...