US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA, DENSO on July 1 for "Vehicle collision avoidance assist apparatus and vehicle collision avoidance assist program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,243, issued on July 1, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Vehicle collision avoidance assist apparatus and vehicle collision avoidance assist program" was invented by Takahiro Kuno (Toyota, Japan) and Yuusuke Izumi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle collision avoidance assist apparatus keeps stopping a collision avoidance control when a forbiddance condition is satisfied, and a collision condition is satisfied. The forbiddance condition is a condition that the collision angle is equal to or greater than a predetermined collision angle threshold. The collision condition is...