US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Nov. 4 for "Alarm device, alarm method and non-transitory recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,531, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Alarm device, alarm method and non-transitory recording medium" was invented by Takahiko Kuwabara (Yokohama, Japan), Toshiaki Iwasaki (Tokyo-to, Japan), Masato Uehara (Tokyo-to, Japan) and Tomoki Miyata (Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An alarm device includes a unit determining whether state of driver is inappropriate state to generate vibration of predetermined intensity in seat belt based on in-vehicle sensor signal, a unit determining whether situation requiring notification of predetermined warning to the driver occurs, based on out-of-veh...