ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,425, issued on April 15, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Alert apparatus for host vehicle" was invented by Mafune Kakeshita (Toyota, Japan), Chen Xi (Nagoya, Japan), Kohei Morotomi (Nagoya, Japan), Yuto Shimbo (Toyota, Japan), Tasuku Usui (Susono, Japan), Kenichi Shimizu (Susono, Japan), Wataru Ike (Nagoya, Japan) and Tsunekazu Yasoshima (Nagoya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An alert apparatus starts alerting a driver of a host vehicle, when an oncoming vehicle, that is an other vehicle traveling in an oncoming lane with respect to a traveling lane in which the host vehicle is traveling so as to approach ...