ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,402, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC. (Los Altos, Calif.).
"Vehicle safety operation manager for driver assistance functions" was invented by Yiting Liu (Los Altos, Calif.), Hirofumi Yamamoto (Los Altos, Calif.), Chen Bao (Los Altos, Calif.), Thomas Johnston (Los Altos, Calif.) and Kazunori Nimura (Los Altos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing operation of a vehicle includes detecting, while the vehicle is operating, an assistance condition that triggers activation of one or more assistance components of a set of assistance components associated with a driver assistance system...