US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Jan. 20 for "Vehicle blind spot risk estimation control method, vehicle controller, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing vehicle control program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,461, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle blind spot risk estimation control method, vehicle controller, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing vehicle control program" was invented by Shin Tanaka (Susono, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the method of the present disclosure, first, a blind spot that is present in front of an ego-vehicle and cannot be seen from the ego-vehicle is recognized from information on a surrounding environment of the ego-vehicle. Next, a traveling behavior of a blind spot passing vehicle in the vicinity of the blind spot is obs...