ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,457, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Control device, control method and program" was invented by Yumi Shimanaka (Kasugai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To effectively suppress collision with an oncoming vehicle while reducing a processing load of a processor, provided is a control device for a vehicle comprising an object detection unit configured to detect a object; and a processor. The the processor is configured to execute an estimation process for estimating whether an adjacent lane is an opposite lane, and a avoidance process which executes a steering control for avoiding a collisi...