ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,818, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vehicle driving assistance apparatus" was invented by Kohei Tochigi (Shizuoka-ken, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle driving assistance apparatus terminates decelerating an own vehicle with a second deceleration characteristic by a deceleration control and starts to decelerate the own vehicle with a first deceleration characteristic by the deceleration control when a predetermined time elapses since an accelerator operation is released while a deceleration target is detected, or when a deceleration intensity of the first deceleration characte...