US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 29 for "Vehicle deceleration assistance apparatus and method, and computer-readable storage medium storing vehicle deceleration assistance program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,024, issued on July 29, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle deceleration assistance apparatus and method, and computer-readable storage medium storing vehicle deceleration assistance program" was invented by Yuta Ikezawa (Toyota, Japan) and Kohei Tochigi (Shizuoka-ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle deceleration assistance apparatus executes a deceleration assistance control to assist a deceleration of a vehicle before the vehicle arrives at a deceleration assistance target point to turn left or right. The apparatus executes the deceleration assistance control of a first level as a decelerati...