ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,226, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Collision avoidance support apparatus" was invented by Yumi Shimanaka (Kasugai, Japan) and Sho Hashimoto (Shizuoka-ken, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When a collision avoidance steering control start condition becomes satisfied, a driving support ECU starts a steering control to avoid a collision with a frontward vehicle. The ECU prohibits the steering control when an indicated direction by turn indications of the frontward vehicle is the same as a planned direction of the steering control. The ECU sets the start condition to a first start condition,...