ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,316, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Notification control device and notification control method" was invented by Kenichiroh Hara (Yokohama, Japan), Jiro Fujino (Toyota, Japan), Satoru Kawakami (Tokyo-to, Japan), Hiroshi Morimoto (Tokyo-to, Japan) and Kenta Yamada (Tokyo-to, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A notification control device is configured to, when the number of objects requiring attention present in surroundings of a vehicle is less than or equal to a predetermined number, respectively set virtual planes on which the objects are projected at posi...