US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Feb. 3 for "Driving assistance device and non-transitory storage medium storing a driving assistance program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,810, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Driving assistance device and non-transitory storage medium storing a driving assistance program" was invented by Yuto Tagashira (Toyota, Japan) and Kazuki Fukazawa (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The processor controls the notification device to issue an alert when it detects an obstacle within a predetermined first alert target area extending rearward from the own vehicle in a first situation, where neither the tailgate TG nor the cargo protrudes beyond the rear end of the rear bumper RB. In a second situation, where a part of the opened ta...