US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 14 for "Vehicle control device and vehicle control method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,350, issued on July 14, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle control device and vehicle control method" was invented by Kentaro Takahashi (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To prevent the occupants of a vehicle from feeling uneasy by offset, provided is a control device configured to control the travel of the vehicle so that a lateral position of the vehicle is maintained a target lateral position. The control device comprising a longitudinal control unit configured to execute, when detect a front object in an adjacent area and an approaching vehicle in an adjacent lane, controlling a longitudina...