US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 23 for "Increasing operator confidence of an active driving automation system by modifying longitudinal vehicle dynamics" (Belgian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,819, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Increasing operator confidence of an active driving automation system by modifying longitudinal vehicle dynamics" was invented by Manuel Ludwig Kuehner (Mountain View, Calif.), Hiroshi Yasuda (San Francisco) and Andrea Michelle Rios Lazcano (Brussels).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided to notify an operator of an active and correctly operating driving automation system. More specifically, the notification is executed through modulation of longitudinal vehicle dynamics based on cruising speed or following distance to a leading v...