ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,956, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Alert device, alert method and alert program" was invented by Hirotaka Hatakeyama (Nagoya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An alert device including a driving assistance control unit configured to operate a notification device to provide an alert when a collision between an own vehicle and another vehicle is judged to be possible, the driving assistance control unit sets a possibility judgment area that extends along an intersecting road intersecting an own vehicle's road, and judges whether or not there is a possibility of collision by judging wheth...