ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,350, issued on April 14, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vehicle collision avoidance assist apparatus" was invented by Mafune Kakeshita (Toyota, Japan), Yumi Shimanaka (Kasugai, Japan), Sho Hashimoto (Shizuoka-ken, Japan) and Kenta Miyahara (Okazaki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle collision avoidance assist apparatus executes a collision avoidance control for avoiding a collision of an own vehicle with an object ahead of the own vehicle. The apparatus determines whether a driver of the own vehicle has a collision self-avoidance probability that the driver can avoid the collision of the own vehic...