US Patent Issued to DENSO on Feb. 3 for "Automated operation device, notification control device, and notification control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,877, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Automated operation device, notification control device, and notification control method" was invented by Takuya Kume (Kariya, Japan) and Kazuki Izumi (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated operation device is configured to perform automated driving at an automation level that allows a driver-seat occupant, who is an occupant seated on a driver seat to sleep. A congestion information acquisition unit is configured to acquire information on congestion on a travel route of a subject vehicle. A congestion notification processing unit is configured to...