ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,570, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Driving assistance device" was invented by Karin Morita (Kariya, Japan), Sho Hashimoto (Toyota, Japan) and Yumi Shimanaka (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving assistance device provides driving assistance for avoiding a collision between an own vehicle and an object around the own vehicle, based on detection information on the object. The driving assistance device includes: a primary target determination unit that, based on the detection information, determines an object to be a primary target of which a coll...