US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Dec. 9 for "Verification of the origin of abnormal driving" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,888, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Verification of the origin of abnormal driving" was invented by Seyhan Ucar (Mountain View, Calif.), Tomohiro Matsuda (Mountain View, Calif.), Emrah Akin Sisbot (Mountain View, Calif.) and Kentaro Oguchi (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for programmatically verifying an origin of abnormal driving. Some examples of abnormal driving may include aggressive driving (e.g., tailgating, cut-in lane, etc.), distracted driving (e.g., swe...