US Patent Issued to Nissan Motor on June 9 for "Drive control method and drive control device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,495, issued on June 9, was assigned to Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Drive control method and drive control device" was invented by Yasuhisa Hayakawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Fuminori Takeda (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yoshiya Kusatomi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a drive control method for using a drive control device to control the operation of a host vehicle using at least two autonomous driving modes that have different levels of driving assistance. The drive control method includes shifting the autonomous driving mode from a first mode to a second mode in which the driving assistance level of the second mode...