US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on May 20 for "Driving assist method and driving assist device for vehicle and medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,472, issued on May 20, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Driving assist method and driving assist device for vehicle and medium" was invented by Shunta Sano (Susono, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method to assist a driving of a vehicle comprising the steps of: executing a travel assist control for avoiding a risk factor in front of the vehicle based on driving environment information of the vehicle; counting a time during which a vehicle operation requiring an operator of the vehicle to stop the execution of the travel assist control is detected after the start of the execution of the travel assist contro...