ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,470, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Driving support apparatus" was invented by Kota Endo (Mishima, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving support apparatus includes a surrounding sensor capable of acquiring surrounding information on a three-dimensional object around a vehicle and a road marking ahead of the vehicle, and a vehicle state sensor capable of acquiring vehicle state information on multiple types of vehicle states in response to driving operation by a driver, including an AP operation amount in response to the driver's AP operation as one of the vehicle states. The apparatus ...