ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,763, issued on March 31, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Intervention operation determination apparatus" was invented by Yoji Kunihiro (Susono, Japan), Takahiro Kojo (Gotemba, Japan), Yutaka Aoki (Mishima, Japan), Go Inoue (Gotemba, Japan), Yushi Shibaike (Susono, Japan) and Yushi Nagata (Atsugi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intervention operation determination apparatus includes: a steering unit operated by a driver; a steering wheel to be turned in conjunction with the operation of the steering unit; and a detection unit that detects an operation amount of the steering unit when a steering force th...