ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,872, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vehicle collision control system" was invented by Sadayuki Abe (Shizuoka-ken, Japan), Yusuke Hayashi (Susono, Japan), Daichi Hotta (Tokyo-to, Japan) and Taichi Kawanai (Susono, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control system generates a target trajectory and controls a vehicle to follow the target trajectory. Blind spot information indicates a blind spot region present in front of the vehicle. Under assumption that a first object appears at a first position in front of the vehicle, decelerating the vehicle with a first deceleration cannot avoid ...