US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Feb. 10 for "Collision prevention device, collision prevention method and collision prevention program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,244, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi, Japan).

"Collision prevention device, collision prevention method and collision prevention program" was invented by Xi Chen (Nagoya, Japan) and Kazuya Okamoto (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A collision prevention device comprising a radar device that detects a three-dimensional object approaching in front of an own vehicle from the front side of the own vehicle, and an electronic control unit that executes a collision prevention assistance control that reduces a risk of the own vehicle from colliding with the three-dimensional object when it is determi...