US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 29 for "Cleaning notification device, cleaning notification method, and non-transitory recording medium in which cleaning notification program is recorded" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,044, issued on July 29, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Cleaning notification device, cleaning notification method, and non-transitory recording medium in which cleaning notification program is recorded" was invented by Ryusuke Shimizu (Nisshin, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a cleaning notification device including: a detection unit which, in a case where cleaning of an imaging device that is installed on a vehicle and captures images of the environment external to the vehicle has been performed, detects the line of sight of a user riding in the vehicle; and a processing unit which, in a...