US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on May 26 for "Driver assistance device and driver assistance method for vehicle" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,072, issued on May 26, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Driver assistance device and driver assistance method for vehicle" was invented by Yuta Hiraiwa (Miyoshi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The driver assist ECU determines whether there is another vehicle on the collision course based on the other vehicle information. ECU determines whether a predetermined execution condition for executing the collision avoidance assist operation is satisfied when it is determined that there are other vehicles on the collision course, and starts executing the collision avoidance assist operation when it is determined that...