ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,278, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Driving operation supporting apparatus having notification unit notifying driver of operation command" was invented by Yuki Kishita (Kariya, Japan), Hiroyuki Nanjo (Kariya, Japan) and Noriaki Ikemoto (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving operation supporting apparatus of a vehicle is provided with a notification unit that notifies a driver of an operation command for prompting the driver to perform operations to cause the vehicle to start an inertia travelling; and a changing unit that changes at least one of a frequency of notifications of the no...