US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on April 29 for "Annunciation method, annunciation device, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,055, issued on April 29, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Annunciation method, annunciation device, and storage medium" was invented by Junichi Morimura (Shizuoka-ken, Japan) and Satoshi Omi (Ebina, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A potential collision risk between a vehicle and a potential traffic participant predicted to be present ahead in a direction of travel of the vehicle is foreseen. A first annunciation is performed notifying those in a vicinity that the vehicle is traveling, using an externally-directed annunciator installed in the vehicle, in response to the potential collision risk being foreseen....