ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,423, issued on July 14, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Driving support apparatus" was invented by Kentaro Kamijo (Susono, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving support apparatus executes an automatic driving control for controlling a behavior of a vehicle to reproduce a learned behavior. The driving support apparatus starts a behavior control for controlling the behavior of the vehicle based on the learned behavior, when the vehicle arrives at a control start point during the automatic driving control. The control start point is specified based on a start point at which the manual operation was perform...