US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 8 for "Monitoring system, storage medium storing computer program for monitoring and method for monitoring" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,204, issued on July 8, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Monitoring system, storage medium storing computer program for monitoring and method for monitoring" was invented by Takeshi Sawada (Tokyo-to, Japan), Jiro Fujino (Tokyo-to, Japan), Kenichiroh Hara (Yokohama, Japan) and Satoru Kawakami (Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring system has a notifying unit capable of notifying a driver of information in a tactually recognizable manner, and a processor configured to determine whether a seat position of a driver's seat in which a driver is sitting is within a recommended range that represents a...