ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,116, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Lane change support device" was invented by Takahiro Nishikata (Mishima, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lane change support device determines whether or not the vehicle can change the lane ahead of the other vehicle by determining whether or not the sum of the distance traveled by the vehicle to move forward by the lane change by the predetermined preceding distance with respect to the other vehicle traveling ahead of the lane change destination lane, and the distance traveled by the vehicle during the predetermined allowance time is equal to or les...