US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on June 23 for "Incorporating the actions of an ego driver when affected by unsafe driving" (California, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,883, issued on June 23, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Incorporating the actions of an ego driver when affected by unsafe driving" was invented by Seyhan Ucar (Mountain View, Calif.), Sachin Sharma (Kalamazoo, Mich.), Yongkang Liu (Mountain View, Calif.) and Emrah Akin Sisbot (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for incorporating an ego driver's style and reactions into unsafe driving detection and mitigation. The system can determine a presence of an unsafe driving condition for a ve...