US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Jan. 27 for "Driver monitoring system and driver monitoring method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. RE50,760, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Driver monitoring system and driver monitoring method" was invented by Tomoyuki Yoshida (Nisshin, Japan), Takanori Kusakabe (Gotemba, Japan), Kenichiroh Hara (Yokohama, Japan), Naoki Nishimura (Tokyo-to, Japan) and Shunichiroh Sawai (Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driver monitoring system includes an automated driving controller that allows hands-off operation in which a driver releases hands from a steering wheel of a vehicle, and controls an automated steering driving in which the vehicle is automatically steered, and a request notificatio...