US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Feb. 18 for "Driver assistance system and driver assistance method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,193, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Driver assistance system and driver assistance method" was invented by Masataka Sano (Tokyo-to, Japan), Koichiro Yamauchi (Tokyo-to, Japan) and Takuya Sakata (Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The driver assistance system comprises a detector, a navigator, a stimulator, and a voice interactor. The detector detects wakefulness reduction of a driver or absent-minded driving by the driver. The navigator navigates a vehicle based on map information. The stimulator continuously or intermittently applies stimulation to the driver. The voice interacto...