US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 3 for "Driving assistance device and a non-transitory storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,146, issued on March 3, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Driving assistance device and a non-transitory storage medium" was invented by Yuto Tagashira (Toyota, Japan) and Kazuki Fukazawa (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving assistance device (10) having a processor (12) that executes a process of detecting objects around a vehicle (1), wherein the processor is configured to execute following processes: obtaining first detection values outputted from a plurality of sonar sensors provided in the vehicle, second detection values indicating the state of the shift range, and third detection values c...