US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Feb. 24 for "Information notification device and information notification method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,060, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Information notification device and information notification method" was invented by Tomohiko Kaneko (Yokohama, Japan), Junichi Morimura (Shizuoka-ken, Japan), Shun Maruyama (Numazu, Japan), Ryoma Hiraike (Toyota, Japan) and Satoshi Omi (Ebina, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The information notification device includes a failure information detection unit that detects failure information that affects traveling of the host vehicle when the host vehicle is traveling, and a notification control unit that notifies the succeeding vehicle of at least one of...