ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,519, issued on July 15, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Notification device and notification method" was invented by Yamato Yorifuji (Aichi-gun Aichi-ken, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A notification device is applied to a vehicle including one or more cameras that captures an image of at least an area forward of the vehicle and an human machine interface device that performs notification to alert a driver of the vehicle. The notification device includes a processor. The processor controls the human machine interface device such that the human machine interface device notifies the driver that a u-turn is ...