US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Oct. 27 for "Drive assist device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,007, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Drive assist device" was invented by Tomoyuki Doi (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The drive assist device performs a deceleration notification for notifying the driver that the vehicle is decelerated when the vehicle is automatically decelerated. The drive assist device determines whether or not the suppression condition is satisfied based on the deceleration index value indicating the degree of deceleration of the vehicle and the traveling state of the vehicle, and the satisfied suppression condition indicates that there is a higher possibili...