US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 3 for "Vehicle motion scoring device, method, and computer program for scoring vehicle motion" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,288, issued on March 3, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle motion scoring device, method, and computer program for scoring vehicle motion" was invented by Kenta Kumazaki (Edogawa-ku Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle motion scoring device includes a processor configured to calculate at least one of a degree of variations in a distribution of a motion index or a maximum of the motion index, based on vehicle motion information indicating motion of a vehicle traveling along a predetermined road section, and set a lower score to the vehicle motion information as a calculated value of the d...