US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 8 for "Driving assistance device, driving assistance method, and driving assistance program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,178, issued on July 8, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Driving assistance device, driving assistance method, and driving assistance program" was invented by Tomoyuki Doi (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a driving assistance device (1) including: a traffic light recognition device configured to recognize a lighting mode of a traffic light existing in front of an own vehicle; and a control device configured to determine a predetermined position in a periphery of the traffic light as a target position, execute deceleration control of decelerating the own vehicle until the own vehicle reaches...