US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Aug. 12 for "Driving support device, driving support method, and driving support program for notifying a driver of a vehicle of a target object approaching the vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,294, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi, Japan).

"Driving support device, driving support method, and driving support program for notifying a driver of a vehicle of a target object approaching the vehicle" was invented by Kazuya Okamoto (Toyota, Japan) and Tsunekazu Yasoshima (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a driving support device including: a side sensor configured to detect a target object existing on a lateral side of an own vehicle; and a control device configured to notify a driver of the own vehicle of existence of a target object approaching the own vehicle from the lateral...