ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,220, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Information processing device" was invented by Hiroshi Ueno (Toyota, Japan) and Yoshihisa Yamada (Nagoya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An execution device is configured to execute a detection process for detecting a state that a preceding vehicle is approaching a host vehicle, an acquisition process for acquiring a deceleration of the host vehicle and a deceleration of the preceding vehicle when the preceding vehicle is approaching the host vehicle, and a calculation process for calculating, based on the deceleration of the host vehicle and the dece...