US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 15 for "Determining a corrective action to alter a driving behavior of a vehicle" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,826, issued on July 15, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Determining a corrective action to alter a driving behavior of a vehicle" was invented by Edward Allen Cain Jr. (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation includes determining an action by a vehicle causing a dangerous situation; setting a driving score, based on a number of occurrences of the action; creating a notification, based on a number of occurrences of the action; responsive to the number of occurrences of the action being above a threshold, sending the notification to the...