US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on June 24 for "Systems and methods to manage drivers under abnormal driving" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,846, issued on June 24, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Systems and methods to manage drivers under 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 detecting when a vehicle engages in anomalous driving behavior and managing nearby vehicles to mitigate risk to the nearby vehicles due to the anomalous driving behavior. Acco...