US Patent Issued to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE on Sept. 8 for "Acceleration control to prevent collisions" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,857, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC. (Los Altos, Calif.).

"Acceleration control to prevent collisions" was invented by Yiting Liu (Los Altos, Calif.), Hirofumi Yamamoto (Los Altos, Calif.) and Chen Bao (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling the acceleration rate of a vehicle based on the vehicle's location includes determining, via one or more sensors, that the vehicle is at a first location and reducing the vehicle's initial target acceleration rate to a first adjusted target acceleration rate in response to the location satisfying a first location condition. Subs...