ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,176, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vehicle collision avoidance assist apparatus" was invented by Yumi Shimanaka (Kasugai, Japan), Kazuya Okamoto (Toyota, Japan) and Sho Hashimoto (Shizuoka-ken, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle collision avoidance assist apparatus executes a collision avoidance steering maneuvering assist process of applying a steering force to an own vehicle to assist a collision avoidance steering maneuvering carried out by a driver when there is a probability that the own vehicle collides with an object ahead of the own vehicle, and the driver carries out the...