US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Aug. 12 for "Driving assistance apparatus, driving assistance method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,366, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Driving assistance apparatus, driving assistance method, and program" was invented by Kota Endo (Susono, Japan), Yuta Ikezawa (Susono, Japan) and Kohei Tochigi (Shizuoka-ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving assistance apparatus assists a driver of a vehicle by performing a deceleration control to decelerate the vehicle when the vehicle makes a right turn or a left turn at an intersection. The driving assistance apparatus is configured to make a magnitude of a deceleration of a vehicle while performing a deceleration control of when a left-or-...