ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,454, issued on March 24, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Reverse support apparatus" was invented by Yuki Minase (Toyota, Japan), Masayuki Shakutsui (Nisshin, Japan) and Ichiya Shimomura (Nagoya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reverse support apparatus comprises a storage device in which a forward path passed by a vehicle when the vehicle travels forward is stored, and a controller configured to be able to execute a reverse support control for the vehicle to travel backward along the forward path. The controller makes a suggestion to a driver of the vehicle to execute the reverse support control, when it...