US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on April 14 for "Lane departure suppression device and lane departure suppression method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,353, issued on April 14, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Lane departure suppression device and lane departure suppression method" was invented by Hajime Nagae (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lane departure suppression device includes a driving assistance ECU configured to, when determination is made that there is a risk that a vehicle departs from a lane based on information acquired by a target information acquisition device that acquires information about a target around a host vehicle, execute yaw moment application control of applying a yaw moment for suppressing the departure of the vehicle...