US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA, Nomura Research Institute on Dec. 16 for "Safe driving support system and safe driving support method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,766, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and Nomura Research Institute Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Safe driving support system and safe driving support method" was invented by Yoshihiro Oe (Nagoya, Japan), Wataru Minoura (Nagoya, Japan), Masatoshi Hayashi (Nisshin, Japan), Yutaro Imamura (Nagoya, Japan), Fumihiro Nasu (Nagoya, Japan), Yuki Tatsumoto (Seto, Japan) and Takehiko Hashimoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a safe driving support system, a data center is connected to a plurality of vehicles via a communication network. The data center stores a position of a first vehicle of which a G sensor de...