ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,350, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Driver assistance device" was invented by Kazuhiro Kurozumi (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The driver assistance device gives a notification to a user of a vehicle. The driver assistance device includes a notification unit that gives the notification according to a possibility of contact between the vehicle and a surrounding object based trajectories of the vehicle and the surrounding object that are predicted based on position potential information indicating a relationship between a plurality of future positions at a second time that is a s...