US Patent Issued to Panasonic Automotive Systems on March 3 for "Driving evaluation device and driving evaluation method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,326, issued on March 3, was assigned to Panasonic Automotive Systems Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Driving evaluation device and driving evaluation method" was invented by Masakiyo Nishikawa (Nara, Japan), Yasushi Kojima (Osaka, Japan) and Yoshiki Ito (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving evaluation device includes: a lane change detector that detects a start of a lane change by a vehicle; a behavior detector that detects behavior of an other vehicle in a vicinity of the vehicle; and an evaluator that calculates an evaluation value of driving skills of a driver of the vehicle, according to an operating history of the ...