US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 30 for "Notification device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,009, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Notification device" was invented by Yuki Fukaya (Okazaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A notification device, provided on a vehicle performing an evacuation or an emergency stop when a failure occurs, includes an optical notification unit provided on the vehicle and configured to emit light toward an outside of the vehicle, a notification direction specifying unit configured to specify a notification direction based on a current vehicle location or a scheduled stop location of the vehicle and map information or an external environment of the vehi...