US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 21 for "Backing assistance apparatus and vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,334, issued on July 21, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Backing assistance apparatus and vehicle" was invented by Yuki Tatsumoto (Seto, Japan), Josuke Yamane (Nagoya, Japan), Hirotaka Nogami (Nisshin, Japan), Kazuya Nishimura (Anjo, Japan) and Takumi Fukunaga (Iwakura, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A backing assistance apparatus includes a controller configured to monitor a usage of each seat on a driver side and a passenger side of a vehicle, set a reference distance on each of the driver side and the passenger side according to the usage, and upon detecting an obstacle on a side of a space to which the ...