US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 14 for "Collision prevention apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,349, issued on July 14, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Collision prevention apparatus" was invented by Tomohiro Tanaka (Nisshin, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A collision prevention apparatus includes a driving assistance ECU configured to determine a risk of an own vehicle colliding with an obstacle when it is determined that the obstacle is present ahead of the own vehicle based on information acquired by an object target information acquisition apparatus that acquires information of an object target around the own vehicle, and to execute countermeasure control that reduces the risk when it is determin...