US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Nov. 25 for "Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and vehicle" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,456, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and vehicle" was invented by Masatoshi Hayashi (Nisshin, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The purpose is to prevent inappropriate reporting of agitated driving. A controller, comprising at least one processor, of the information processing apparatus detects a predetermined action included in an act of aggressive driving by a second vehicle traveling within a predetermined range from a first vehicle. The controller of the information processing apparatus executes a predetermined discrimi...