US Patent Issued to Nissan Motor on Sept. 1 for "Driving assistance method and driving assistance device for vehicle" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,630, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Driving assistance method and driving assistance device for vehicle" was invented by Yasuhisa Hayakawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving assistance method for a vehicle comprises: suspending autonomous lane change control when a driver's steering operation input during execution of the autonomous lane change control satisfies a predetermined suspension condition; executing first autonomous lane change control for changing a traveling direction and traveling along a travel route to head for a set destination and second autonomous ...