US Patent Issued to Nissan Motor on March 17 for "Driving assistance method and driving assistance device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,844, issued on March 17, was assigned to Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Driving assistance method and driving assistance device" was invented by Yohei Taniguchi (Kanagawa, Japan), Shohei Nakamura (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yuji Nagasawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving assistance method causes a controller to perform processing of making a proposal of a lane change to a passenger when an index value based on relative speed of a preceding vehicle with respect to an own vehicle is less than a threshold value and canceling the proposal of the lane change when a lane change execution condition is not satis...