US Patent Issued to Woven by Toyota on April 21 for "Systems and methods of detecting hazards of a leading vehicle" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,159, issued on April 21, was assigned to Woven by Toyota Inc. (Tokyo).

"Systems and methods of detecting hazards of a leading vehicle" was invented by Manuel Ludwig Kuehner (Mountain View, Calif.) and Hiroshi Yasuda (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided to implement detecting a leading vehicle hazard. System and methods visually ascertain if certain driver risk factors are exhibited by a proceeding vehicle (and driver) that indicate the vehicle is potentially hazardous, such as obtaining images of an expired license plate on the vehicle. In response, a vehicle performs a computer-controlled m...