US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 23 for "Driver estimation device, driver estimation method, and program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,805, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Driver estimation device, driver estimation method, and program" was invented by Masato Endo (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driver estimation device includes a data acquisition unit. The data acquisition unit acquires operation data related to an operation performed by a driver before driving a vehicle for a plurality of preset operation items. The driver estimation device also includes a driver estimation unit. The driver estimation unit estimates the driver based on the operation data acquired by the data acquisition unit."

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