US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on May 27 for "Driving support apparatus and driving support method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,933, issued on May 27, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Driving support apparatus and driving support method" was invented by Shintaro Inoue (Kanagawa-ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving support apparatus assists driving of a vehicle by performing control of the vehicle corresponding to a blind spot. A driving support apparatus stores risk estimation information for calculating a risk estimation value indicating a height of a risk of a blind spot, and determines a plurality of blind spots as one conglomerate risk when the plurality of blind spots are detected in front of a vehicle and satisfy a pr...