ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,070, issued on March 3, was assigned to ISUZU MOTORS Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).
"Determination apparatus and determination method" was invented by Keisuke Nakamata (Fujisawa, Japan) and Hirotaka Ueda (Fujisawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A determination apparatus includes a distance acquisition part that acquires a longitudinal distance in a traveling direction of a host vehicle between a preceding vehicle that the host vehicle is following and the host vehicle, and a determination part that determines, as a target turning curvature, a curvature that is smaller than a predetermined curvature if the longitudinal distance is les...