ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,234, issued on July 1, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Driving support device, driving support method, and driving support program" was invented by Ryo Ishii (Toyota, Japan), Takuya Kaminade (Okazaki, Japan), Naoya Matsunaga (Nagoya, Japan), Masashi Oishi (Owariasahi, Japan) and Masaki Ikai (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a driving support device (1) including a control device which has an acceleration suppression function of suppressing acceleration of an own vehicle when the own vehicle is determined to be positioned in a parking area (PA) including a parking spot row (PSA) and an erro...