US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on April 7 for "Vehicle controller, method, and program for steering reaction during manual driving for returning to a preset route" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,969, issued on April 7, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle controller, method, and program for steering reaction during manual driving for returning to a preset route" was invented by Yusuke Hayashi (Atsugi, Japan), Taichi Kawanai (Susono, Japan), Daichi Hotta (Tokyo) and Sadayuki Abe (Sunto-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The vehicle controller of the present disclosure acquires a preset operation route, and causes the vehicle to travel along the preset operation route in one of an autonomous driving mode and a manual driving mode. The autonomous driving mode is a mode in which the vehicle is ope...