ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,033, issued on April 21, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Driving assistance device" was invented by Masahiro Takahashi (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The driving assistance device 1 controls the notification device 30 to issue a predetermined alert to the occupants of the own vehicle if, at a first point in time, it detects the existence of a first driving lane L1 adjacent to the lane L0 in which the own vehicle is traveling, and no stationary object is present in a predetermined area R[n+10] located ahead of the own vehicle in that first driving lane L1, and then, at a second point in time after...