ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,812, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Navigation system" was invented by Yasutomo Okumura (Nagoya Aichi-ken, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A navigation system, including: a memory; a display; and a processor coupled to the memory and to the display, the processor being configured to: at a time of route guidance for a host vehicle, estimate an aspect of an accident at a vicinity of the route and a risk of the accident; and control the display so as to display objects indicating a collision target corresponding to the aspect of the accident, with a number of the objects corresponding to a ...