US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on June 24 for "Driving assistance apparatus, driving assistance method, and computer-readable storage medium storing driving assistance program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,838, issued on June 24, 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 Yusuke Fukui (Toyota, Japan) and Yuhei Miyamoto (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving assistance apparatus comprises an electronic control unit which executes a driving assistance control to alert a driver of an own vehicle for avoiding a collision of the own vehicle with an oncoming vehicle when the own vehicle performs a crossing movement. The crossing movement is a movement of the own vehicle ...