ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,785, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).
"Collision damage reduction apparatus" was invented by Kento Ooe (Toyota, Japan), Kan Mayoshi (Nagoya, Japan) and Atsushi Kobayashi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A collision damage reduction apparatus executes a collision damage reduction control to reduce damage due to a collision of an own vehicle with an object. The apparatus executes the collision damage reduction control when the object exists in a first area. The first area is an area in a moving direction of the own vehicle and has a first width set, based on a width of the own vehicle. T...