US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 15 for "Omnidirectional collision avoidance" (Belgian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,829, issued on July 15, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Omnidirectional collision avoidance" was invented by Amr Abdelraouf (Foster City, Calif.), Rohit Gupta (Santa Clara, Calif.), Hazem Abdelkawy (Woluwe Saint Pierre, Belgium) and Kyungtae Han (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation includes one or more of receiving driving data of a first vehicle, receiving driving data of a second vehicle driving in a different lane than the first vehicle, determining that the first vehicle and the second vehicle ...