US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 4 for "Driving support apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,461, issued on March 4, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Driving support apparatus" was invented by Kumiko Kondo (Numazu, Japan), Shinya Kawamata (Mishima, Japan) and Shogo Ito (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The driving support apparatus performs deceleration control of the vehicle. The driving support apparatus includes: a sensitivity setting unit configured to set an actuation sensitivity of a deceleration control; a deceleration execution unit configured to execute the deceleration control based on the actuation sensitivity; and a brake operation detection unit configured to detect a brake ope...