US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on May 27 for "Vehicle notification device, vehicle notification method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,369, issued on May 27, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle notification device, vehicle notification method, and storage medium" was invented by Tetsuo Hayakawa (Kurokawa-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle notification device acquires a congestion situation of rest facilities existing on a guidance route on an expressway, acquires position information of a first rest facility that is the closest rest facility to a current location of an own vehicle and position information of a second rest facility that is the next closest rest facility to the current location following the first rest facili...