ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,368, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vehicle stop holding device" was invented by Yuma Ito (Obu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle stop holding device for holding a stop of a vehicle includes a ECU for starting execution of a backup control for holding a stop state of the vehicle by a brake holding device when an operation of getting off the driver of the vehicle is detected while the vehicle is stopped by the brake device, and ECU outputs a brake operation request for requesting an operation of the brake device to the driver and releases the brake of the brake device when both a ...