US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 8 for "Driving assistance device, driving assistance method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,841, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Driving assistance device, driving assistance method, and storage medium" was invented by Masakazu Nishijima (Ebina, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving assistance device performs driving assistance for an own vehicle when a predetermined target exists in a driving assistance area that is set ahead of the own vehicle. The driving assistance device is able to make a setting change to increase an area size of the driving assistance area in such a manner that the driving assistance area expands outward from the vehicle. When the driving assistance a...