US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on June 30 for "Alarm device and alarm method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,793, issued on June 30, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Alarm device and alarm method" was invented by Kazuki Fukazawa (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An alarm device executes first alarm processing when an alarm target satisfies a first alarm condition, and second alarm processing when the alarm target satisfies a second alarm condition. In a first alarm state where the first or second alarm processing is executed upon detection of the alarm target, when a second object is detected as an alarm target different from a first object that is an alarm target of the first alarm state, the alarm device d...