ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,424, issued on April 15, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Control device" was invented by Hiroshi Oyagi (Kyoto, Japan), Hirokazu Ito (Sunto-gun Shizuoka, Japan), Shinya Shiratori (Susono, Japan) and Norimi Asahara (Numazu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device includes: a controller controlling a first vehicle, the controller being configured to estimate a degree of concentration of a driver in the first vehicle during traveling of the first vehicle based on a first distance between the first vehicle and a second vehicle traveling in front of the first vehicle, a second distance between the first v...