US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA, Continental Autonomous Mobility Germany on April 7 for "Vehicle-exit assist apparatus" (Japanese, Romanian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,349, issued on April 7, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and Continental Autonomous Mobility Germany GmbH (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Vehicle-exit assist apparatus" was invented by Koji Takeuchi (Toyota, Japan), Masanori Tokuda (Miyoshi, Japan), Masaho Ishida (Toyota, Japan), Junya Fukuta (Nagoya, Japan), Ryuichi Soya (Yokohama, Japan) and Ovidiu Marius Chicea (Sibiu, Romania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a vehicle-exit assist apparatus including: a target information acquisition device (12) configured to acquire target information on a target existing on a rear side of an own vehicle; and a control unit (...