US Patent Issued to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Feb. 3 for "Directing a drivers gaze based on directional magnets" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,069, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC. (Los Altos, Calif.) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Directing a drivers gaze based on directional magnets" was invented by Hiroshi Yasuda (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for training a driver to operate a vehicle includes identifying a first head pose direction of a driver, at a first time period, in accordance with monitoring the driver. The method also includes activating one or more first magnets of a first set of magnets to interact with one or more second magnets of a second set of magnets in accordance with a difference...