US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Nov. 3 for "Driving support device for controlling start of own vehicle based on driver attention state" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,202, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Driving support device for controlling start of own vehicle based on driver attention state" was invented by Yuma Ito (Obu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The driving support device 1 controls the own vehicle to start in a predetermined first manner in the first situation, where a first condition for determining that the preceding vehicle has started is met at the first moment and the driver of the own vehicle is determined to be paying attention to the front of the own vehicle. In the second situation, where the second condition is not met at the first...