ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,370, issued on July 14, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Control device and information processing system" was invented by Hiroshi Oyagi (Kyoto, Japan), Hirokazu Ito (Sunto-gun, Japan), Shinya Shiratori (Susono, Japan) and Norimi Asahara (Numazu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device includes: a control unit that controls a vehicle. Further, the control unit determines, when the vehicle travels in a section including a plurality of lanes, whether a negative emotion associated with a lane change is detected in a preceding vehicle on a same lane as the vehicle, and causes, in a case of determining t...