US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on June 17 for "Driving assistance apparatus, driving assistance method, and computer-readable storage medium storing driving assistance program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,673, issued on June 17, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Driving assistance apparatus, driving assistance method, and computer-readable storage medium storing driving assistance program" was invented by Yuma Ito (Obu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving assistance apparatus executes a moving control to autonomously control a vehicle. The apparatus informs a driver of contents of a voice operation process planned to be executed for the moving control in accordance with utterance contents of the driver acquired by voice recognition, and execute the voice operation process when an approval operation to ap...