ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,217, issued on May 19, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan) and CONTINENTAL AUTONOMOUS MOBILITY GERMANY GMBH (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Control device, control method, and non-transitory storage medium" was invented by Takahiro Kohara (Toyota, Japan), Tomohiko Mochizuki (Okazaki, Japan), Takayoshi Nohara (Toyota, Japan), Masahiro Takahashi (Toyota, Japan) and Yuki Hashimoto (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device include a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to acquire state information related to an approach state toward a driver's vehicle of another vehicl...