ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,402, issued on May 5, was assigned to Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).
"Vehicle control method and vehicle control device" was invented by Shinya Saito (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yasuhisa Taira (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device operates to: obtain road information of a subject vehicle traffic lane in which the subject vehicle travels and road information of a branching traffic lane branching from the subject vehicle traffic lane when the branching traffic lane is present in a traveling direction of the subject vehicle; determine whether driver operation information indicating an intention of tr...