US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Oct. 21 for "Vehicle emergency stop system, vehicle emergency stop method, and vehicle emergency stop program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,973, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle emergency stop system, vehicle emergency stop method, and vehicle emergency stop program" was invented by Masakatsu Onitsuka (Nisshin, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a vehicle emergency stop system (1) including a control device configured to start execution of emergency stop control for causing an own vehicle to perform an emergency stop by performing braking control on the own vehicle when an operation of a driving operation device of the own vehicle is not detected for a predetermined time, and to end the execution of the emerge...