US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 14 for "Drive assist device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,399, issued on July 14, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Drive assist device" was invented by Yukikazu Tsuda (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive assist device includes: a surrounding situation recognition unit that recognizes a surrounding situation including a traveling state of another vehicle around the target vehicle; a traveling route acquisition unit that acquires a traveling route on which the target vehicle travels based on the traveling state of the target vehicle and the surrounding situation; and a lane change proposing unit. The lane change proposing unit proposes, to an occupant, a ...