ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,865, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vehicle guidance device" was invented by Shoji Sakamoto (Shizuoka-ken, Japan), Kazumi Tsuchiya (Gotemba, Japan), Makoto Matsushita (Ichinomiya, Japan), Takeshi Takemoto (Nagoya, Japan), Shunsuke Sagara (Nisshin, Japan) and Hideaki Shiraishi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A braking function recognition unit that recognizes a state of a braking device capable of applying a braking force to a vehicle, a first reception unit that receives satellite data from the artificial satellite, a determination unit that determines an emergency evacuation location bas...