US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Dec. 16 for "Vehicle driver assistance device, vehicle driver assistance method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,060, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle driver assistance device, vehicle driver assistance method, and storage medium" was invented by Kota Kitamura (Nisshin, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle driver assistance device executes safety assistance control for enhancing travel safety of a vehicle. When a level of fatigue of a driver of the vehicle becomes equal to or higher than a predetermined level, the vehicle driver assistance device increases a safety assistance level, which is a level for increasing the travel safety of the vehicle, by safety assistance control, and notifi...