ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,500, issued on July 15, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle control apparatus" was invented by Mizuho Wakabayashi (Tokyo), Yuki Yoshida (Tokyo) and Yuko Omagari (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control apparatus includes a lane-changing-cancellation determination unit that cancels lane changing and determines whether or not an own vehicle should return to the original lane, in the case where while the own vehicle performs the lane changing, another vehicle is detected within an area determined by a predetermined longitudinal-direction range and a predetermined transverse-direction range, and a m...