ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,839, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Driving assistance apparatus" was invented by Yuta Ikezawa (Susono, Japan), Kohei Tochigi (Sunto-gun Shizuoka-ken, Japan) and Shogo Ito (Sunto-gun Shizuoka-ken, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving assistance apparatus is configured to determine whether a preset deceleration assistance start condition is satisfied, start deceleration assistance for a driver's vehicle against a first deceleration-triggering object, determine whether a preset deceleration assistance termination condition is satisfied, issue a deceleration assistance termination notifi...