ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,018, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vehicle control apparatus" was invented by Yusuke Fukui (Miyoshi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control apparatus performs an alert notification of alerting an operator of at least one of an own vehicle and an oncoming vehicle of a collision probability. The vehicle control apparatus performs the alert notification when a predicted lane departure period of time is equal to or longer than a second threshold period of time at a point of time when a predicted collision period of time becomes shorter than a first threshold period of time, and...