US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on May 27 for "Driving assistance apparatus, driving assistance method, and computer-readable storage medium storing driving assistance program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,934, issued on May 27, 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 Yuma Ito (Obu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving assistance apparatus executes a moving control to autonomously control a moving of a vehicle. The apparatus informs a driver of contents of a voice operation process planned to be executed for the moving control in accordance with utterance contents of the driver acquired by voice recognition and request the driver to perform an approval operation to app...