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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,400, issued on July 14, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Driving assistance device" was invented by Takeshi Hoshiba (Anjo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The driving assistance device includes an operation device that is shared for an operation requesting an increase in the upper limit value of the own vehicle speed and an operation requesting the own vehicle to start moving. The processor of the driving assistance device controls the notification device so that information indicating that the upper limit value has increased is provided to the driver when the upper limit value at the time when congestion is...