ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,508, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle control system" was invented by Daichi Hotta (Meguro-ku Tokyo-to, Japan), Yusuke Hayashi (Atsugi, Japan), Sadayuki Abe (Sunto-gun Shizuoka-ken, Japan) and Taichi Kawanai (Susono, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control system includes one or more processors configured to execute automated driving control that controls automated driving of a vehicle. The automated driving control includes risk avoidance control that avoids a collision with a target around the vehicle. When a notification representing a risk level around the vehicle is ...