ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,078, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle alert system" was invented by Satoshi Uno (Mishima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acquisition unit that acquires target vehicle data including information on the activation of warning light displays in a predetermined target vehicle and/or predetermined operations by the driver of the target vehicle; and the number of activations of warning light displays acquired by the acquisition unit and/or the predetermined operations. and a determination unit that determines whether the activation of the warning light display and/or the occurrence of...