ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,694, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Driving support device, driving support method, and driving support program" was invented by Hiroshi Toyoda (Susono, Japan), Shogo Ito (Susono, Japan) and Kumiko Kondo (Numazu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a driving support device (1) including: an operation sensor configured to acquire operation information that is information on an operation on a driving operation device included in an own vehicle; a periphery sensor configured to acquire peripheral information that is information on a target object existing in a periphery of the own veh...