ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,756, issued on April 22, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Vehicle driving assistance apparatus" was invented by Yusuke Fukui (Toyota, Japan) and Yuzo Kaneshige (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle driving assistance apparatus includes a control unit configured to, in a case where the control unit determines, based on radar target object information, that at least one target control object that is approaching so as to intersect with a predicted traveling path of the host vehicle is present, when a line of vision of the driver detected by a driver monitor device is ...