US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 7 for "Driver assistance device for vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,671, issued on July 7, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Driver assistance device for vehicle" was invented by Naoki Iguchi (Toyota, Japan) and Toshiki Kinoshita (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driver assist ECU executes a collision avoidance assist operation for avoiding a collision between a host vehicle and an object when a collision determination condition that is satisfied when the host vehicle is predicted to collide with the object is satisfied. The driver assist ECU recognizes a speed limit applied on a lane on which the host vehicle is traveling, and when a current speed limit that is newly...