US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 24 for "Determination device, determination method, and program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,463, issued on March 24, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Determination device, determination method, and program" was invented by Takahiro Kohara (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To effectively increase determination accuracy for road rage, provided is a determination device including: a close state determination unit (12) configured to determine whether a first vehicle (V1) and a second vehicle (V2) are in a predetermined close state; a third vehicle determination unit (11) configured to determine whether a third vehicle (V3) traveling in front of the second vehicle (V2) exists; and a road rage de...