ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,509, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Driving supporting apparatus" was invented by Mafune Kakeshita (Toyota, Japan), Xi Chen (Nagoya, Japan) and Tsunekazu Yasoshima (Nagoya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving supporting apparatus comprising a first sensor that detects an object present outside of a vehicle based on a reflection of a radio wave that the first sensor radiates, a second sensor that detects a boundary structural object positioned at a boundary between a road area on which the vehicle can travel and an area other than the road area, and a control unit configured to pe...