US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 28 for "Assessment device, storage medium storing computer program for assessment, and assessment method for detecting driver control of a steering wheel through auxiliary control inputs" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,924, issued on July 28, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Assessment device, storage medium storing computer program for assessment, and assessment method for detecting driver control of a steering wheel through auxiliary control inputs" was invented by Satoru Kawakami (Tokyo-to, Japan), Jiro Fujino (Tokyo-to, Japan) and Shunichiroh Sawai (Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assessment device has a processor configured to determine that the driver is in control of the steering wheel when an operation signal from an operating unit that can be operated by a hand of the driver that is holding the steeri...