US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 29 for "Drive assist apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,404, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Drive assist apparatus" was invented by Yuki Hatsude (Toyota, Japan), Takaya Yamashita (Nagoya, Japan) and Hiroki Shimazu (Nisshin, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive assist apparatus for a vehicle is configured to issue a primary warning when a predetermined target present around the ego vehicle enters an assist area set around the ego vehicle, issue a secondary warning when a direction indicator of the ego vehicle is operated while the primary warning is being issued, and change the content of the secondary warning depending on whether or not ...