US Patent Issued to DENSO on May 27 for "Vehicle notification control device and vehicle notification control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,837, issued on May 27, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Vehicle notification control device and vehicle notification control method" was invented by Shota Nojiri (Kariya, Japan), Shiori Maneyama (Kariya, Japan), Kazuki Izumi (Kariya, Japan) and Takuya Kume (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "By a vehicle control notification device or a vehicle control notification method, an automated driving-related state of a vehicle is identified, a vehicle exterior notification device is controlled for performing vehicle exterior notification that is notification of information related to the automated driving toward an ou...