US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on April 22 for "Driving assistance system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,823, issued on April 22, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Driving assistance system" was invented by Shintaro Saigo (Nisshin, Japan) and Takeshi Hamaguchi (Seto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving assistance system includes: a first control unit configured to output an output amount related to a required amount; and a second control unit configured to calculate a difference amount between the output amount output and an actually measured amount of an actuator, and control the actuator based on the difference amount and a torque map, in which in assist control (second driving assistance control), the fi...