US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 22 for "Driving assistance function proposal system and proposal method for driving assistance function proposal system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,659, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Driving assistance function proposal system and proposal method for driving assistance function proposal system" was invented by Hisanobu Inoue (Kawasaki, Japan), Hironori Ito (Tokyo), Takahiro Kawano (Chofu, Japan) and Toshifumi Iwase (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driver feeling bothered due to a proposal of unnecessary driving assistance functions is curbed. A driving assistance function proposal system for acquiring an operation history of a driving assistance function including position information from a plurality of probe vehicles and prop...