ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,423, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and ADVICS Co. LTD. (Kariya, Japan).
"Information processing device" was invented by Hiroshi Ueno (Toyota, Japan), Yoshihisa Yamada (Nagoya, Japan), Tomoya Tanaka (Kariya, Japan) and Yasufumi Enami (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device includes a processor. The processor acquires an operation amount for acceleration/deceleration of a first vehicle by a driver of the first vehicle. The processor acquires an inter-vehicle distance from the first vehicle to a second vehicle traveling ahead of the first vehicle. The proces...