ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,936, issued on April 7, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vehicle control apparatus" was invented by Yusuke Fukui (Miyoshi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control apparatus comprises: a surrounding condition displaying device capable of displaying an image of vehicle surrounding conditions on a monitor inside a vehicle; a driver monitoring device that obtains driver's information including a direction of a line of sight of a driver and a face direction of the driver; and a controller configured to be able to perform a start moving suppression control to suppress a start moving of the vehicle when a...