ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,220, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi, Japan).
"Getting-out assistance apparatus" was invented by Tasuku Kawai (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A getting-out assistance apparatus performs alerting to an occupant of a vehicle by an alerting device of the vehicle to inform the occupant of a presence of a moving object approaching the vehicle and having a probability of coming into contact with at least one door of the vehicle if the at least one door is opened. The apparatus determines a manner of the alerting performed by the alerting device depending on at least one of alerting device type in...