ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,241, issued on March 3, was assigned to ISUZU MOTORS Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).
"Controller" was invented by Yuuki Iwaki (Fujisawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller that switches between (i) autonomous driving control for causing a vehicle to travel by automatically controlling the steering and speed of the vehicle and (ii) manual driving control in which the steering and speed are controlled by a driver's operation, the controller includes: a determination part that determines whether a speed control operation for controlling the speed has been performed by the driver while an obstacle preventing the vehicle from trave...