US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 1 for "Control apparatus and vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,455, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Control apparatus and vehicle" was invented by Mitsuhiro Miura (Toyota, Japan) and Yoshiaki Tomatsu (Toyoake, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "If it is detected that a passenger is present in the predetermined area set near the door inside the vehicle while the door is in open state, a control apparatus prohibits door closing control. The control apparatus displays, when a close button is pressed by a driver while the door closing control is prohibited, image captured by an in-vehicle camera at the timing when the close button is pressed, on a display f...