ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,109, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Deceleration support device" was invented by Kumiko Kondo (Numazu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control unit is a deceleration support device configured to execute an automatic deceleration control that automatically decelerates an own vehicle until an index value acquired by dividing an inter-vehicle distance between a preceding vehicle and the own vehicle by a relative speed of the own vehicle with respect to the preceding vehicle becomes equal to or greater than an end standard value, when the index value is equal to or less than a start standa...