ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,979, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Collision avoidance assistance apparatus" was invented by Kenichi Shimizu (Susono, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A collision avoidance assistance apparatus stars a collision avoidance control, when a control target object having a possibility of colliding with the host vehicle is determined to be present and a collision index value of the control target object satisfies a predetermined control start condition. If a continuous recognizing time being a time for which the control target object continues being detected is shorter than a predetermined c...