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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,356, issued on July 14, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle controller, method, and computer program for vehicle control" was invented by Kenta Kumazaki (Edogawa-ku Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle controller includes a processor configured to detect a lane line defining a lane being traveled by a vehicle, calculate a departure index indicating the possibility of the vehicle departing from the lane, based on the positional relationship between the lane line and the vehicle, determine whether a predetermined departure condition is satisfied, based on the departure index, execute depart...