ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,127, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle notification system" was invented by Koichi Fujita (Toyota, Japan), Jun Tohyama (Nisshin, Japan), Daisuke Akaho (Nagoya, Japan), Yuta Maniwa (Susono, Japan), Natsumi Izawa (Kariya, Japan), Shunichiroh Sawai (Tokyo-to, Japan), Masahiko Nakamura (Okazaki, Japan) and Kenichiro Aoki (Machida, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle notification system according to a first aspect includes: a terminal installation portion that is provided at a periphery of a driver's seat of a vehicle capable of autonomous driving in which all driving operations ar...