US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on June 30 for "Driving support device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,239, issued on June 30, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Driving support device" was invented by Shunta Sano (Susono, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The driving support device includes a line of sight detection unit that detects a line of sight of an occupant of the first following vehicle on the oncoming lane, a moving person estimation unit that estimates whether or not there is a possibility of a crossing moving person being present around the leading vehicle based on the detected line of sight, and a driving support unit that performs deceleration control of the host vehicle and the like when it is esti...