US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 25 for "Device, method, and computer program for proposing autonomous driving" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,035, issued on March 25, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Device, method, and computer program for proposing autonomous driving" was invented by Kenta Kumazaki (Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for proposing autonomous driving includes a processor configured to identify an autonomously travelable section in which a vehicle is capable of traveling under autonomous driving control, make a proposal for travel under autonomous driving control to a driver of the vehicle via a notification device when a proposal determination value corresponding to the length of the identified autonomously trave...