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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,943, issued on May 27, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle driving assistance apparatus, vehicle driving assistance method, and computer-readable storage medium storing vehicle driving assistance program" was invented by Tatsuya Ito (Toyota, Japan) and Hideki Kamatani (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle driving assistance apparatus predicts (i) a first consumed energy amount corresponding to a consumed energy amount consumed by a driving apparatus of an own vehicle when executing a first following control and (ii) a second consumed energy amount corresponding to the consumed energy amount...