US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA, DENSO on April 21 for "Operation support device, system, non-temporary storage medium, and operation support method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,212, issued on April 21, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Operation support device, system, non-temporary storage medium, and operation support method" was invented by Yu Nagata (Chofu, Japan) and Keiichi Uno (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An operation support device operates a vehicle by autonomous driving. The operation support device includes a control unit that acquires appearance data indicating an appearance history of emergency vehicles for each of a plurality of links forming a route through which the vehicle is expected to pass, predicts, for each of the li...