ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,636, issued on June 17, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vehicle driving assistance apparatus" was invented by Yusuke Fukui (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle driving assistance apparatus executes a collision avoidance control to avoid a collision of an own vehicle with an object ahead of the own vehicle by forcibly braking and stopping the own vehicle before the object when a collision condition that the own vehicle collides with the object, becomes satisfied. The vehicle driving assistance apparatus acquires information on a situation behind the own vehicle as rearward detection information...