US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on May 27 for "Driving support apparatus, driving support method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,924, issued on May 27, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Driving support apparatus, driving support method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Mafune Kakeshita (Toyota, Japan) and Toshifumi Kawasaki (Nagakute, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving support apparatus comprises a sensor for detecting an object, and a controller for prohibiting a collision control when an override condition is satisfied. The controller executes the collision control in a case where the override condition is satisfied during an erroneous operation, determines that an acceleration operation is ...