US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Feb. 17 for "Monitoring device, storage medium storing computer program for monitoring, and monitoring method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,314, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Monitoring device, storage medium storing computer program for monitoring, and monitoring method" was invented by Hiromi Nemoto (Tokyo-to, Japan) and Masataka Sano (Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring device has a processor configured to determine a degree to which a driver is participating in driving, determine whether a merging terrain exists in which an adjacent lane vanishes by merging with the traveling lane, within a predetermined range from a current location of the vehicle, and alert the driver to be attentive to vehicle surr...