US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Feb. 24 for "Autonomous driving control apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,139, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Autonomous driving control apparatus" was invented by Kosuke Futagami (Mishima, Japan), Ryosuke Hata (Mishima, Japan), Yosuke Hirate (Kariya, Japan) and Taichi Kawanai (Susono, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The autonomous driving control apparatus includes a driving control unit capable of executing a first autonomous driving mode and a second autonomous driving mode having a higher travel performance than the first autonomous driving mode, a parameter changing unit changing at least a part of a control parameter of autonomous driving to a control pa...