US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA, DENSO on June 30 for "Travel controller and travel control method for alerting driver of road edge" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,283, issued on June 30, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Travel controller and travel control method for alerting driver of road edge" was invented by Ryusuke Kuroda (Edogawa-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A travel controller autonomously controlling a travel of a vehicle, detecting a departure preventer preventing the vehicle from running off a road at an edge of the road under autonomous control from surrounding data representing surroundings of the vehicle, when no departure preventer is detected, determining a possibility of the vehicle reaching the edge of the road b...