US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Feb. 24 for "Vehicle control device, vehicle control method and program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,024, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle control device, vehicle control method and program" was invented by Masahiko Adachi (Susono, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To effectively notify other vehicles around own vehicle that LCA is canceled, provided is a vehicle control device configured to execute a lane change assist control for automatically changing a lane from a lane traveling on a own vehicle to a target lane adjacent to the lane. The vehicle control device is configured to cancel the lane change assist control, when a predetermined cancellation condition is satisfied during ...