US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Oct. 7 for "Driving assistance apparatus, driving assistance method, and computer-readable storage medium storing driving assistance program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,730, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Driving assistance apparatus, driving assistance method, and computer-readable storage medium storing driving assistance program" was invented by Yuma Ito (Obu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving assistance apparatus executes a moving control to autonomously control a moving of a vehicle. The apparatus outputs first and second announcements and executes a voice operation process when the approval operation is performed. The first announcement is to inform a driver of contents of the voice operation process planned to be executed for the moving con...