US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on May 26 for "Driver assistance control device, driver assistance method, and non-transitory computer storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,095, issued on May 26, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Driver assistance control device, driver assistance method, and non-transitory computer storage medium" was invented by Ryo Shirai (Toyota, Japan) and Makoto Maehara (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle is capable of selecting one driving mode from among a plurality of driving modes including a first driving mode for normal driving and a second driving mode for rough road driving. A control device for the vehicle is configured to monitor a driver of the vehicle and perform a notification regarding distracted driving to the driver and, wh...