US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 21 for "Alert apparatus and alert method of a vehicle" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,403, issued on July 21, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi, Japan).

"Alert apparatus and alert method of a vehicle" was invented by Tomoyuki Doi (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving support ECU of an alert apparatus obtains, when a preceding vehicle comes closer to a host vehicle rapidly in a following preceding vehicle state in which the host vehicle is following the preceding vehicle owing to a driving operation by a host vehicle driver, operation characteristics values representing characteristics of a deceleration operation performed by the host vehicle driver to decelerate the host vehicle, and memoriz...