US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on May 13 for "Computer-implemented method for maintaining a driver's perceived trust level in an at least partially automated vehicle" (Belgian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,831, issued on May 13, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Computer-implemented method for maintaining a driver's perceived trust level in an at least partially automated vehicle" was invented by Alexandre Gentner (Brussels).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for maintaining a driver's perceived trust level in an at least partially automated vehicle, comprising monitoring one or more parameters concerning the driver, the vehicle and/or a surrounding environment; predicting, based on the one or more parameters, a decrease in the perceived trust level; and carrying out one or more countermeasu...