ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,466, issued on April 8, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Driving assistance apparatus" was invented by Yusuke Mase (Nagoya, Japan) and Masakatsu Onitsuka (Nisshin, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving assistance apparatus performs a deployment control including at least a control to deploy an air-bag of a vehicle when an collision indicating value satisfies a predetermined collision condition, and performs a brake-and-drive control to make a driving force of the vehicle smaller than a required driving force of a driver of the vehicle or to apply a brake force to the vehicle when the collision indicating...