US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA, DENSO on May 5 for "Vehicle driving assistance apparatus, vehicle driving assistance method, and computer-readable storage medium storing vehicle driving assistance program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,399, issued on May 5, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and DENSO Corp. (Kariya-City, Japan).

"Vehicle driving assistance apparatus, vehicle driving assistance method, and computer-readable storage medium storing vehicle driving assistance program" was invented by Hideki Kamatani (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle driving assistance apparatus executes an autonomous acceleration/deceleration control to maintain an own vehicle moving speed within a predetermined speed range, or maintain an inter-vehicle distance within a predetermined distance range, executes a coasting control when the deceleration...