US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Jan. 13 for "Device, vehicle, and method for monitoring abnormal situation using vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,021, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Device, vehicle, and method for monitoring abnormal situation using vehicle" was invented by Daisaku Honda (Nagoya, Japan), Hiroya Matsubayashi (Nisshin, Japan), Ryota Tomizawa (Mishima, Japan), Satoshi Tanabe (Susono, Japan), Nobutsugu Maruiwa (Mishima, Japan), Yasuhiro Kobatake (Nagoya, Japan) and Hiroki Awano (Susono, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device that monitors an abnormal situation that has occurred in a region inside or around a parking lot using a vehicle in the region includes: an information acquisition unit that acquires state infor...