ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,386, issued on July 21, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Driving assistance control apparatus for vehicle, driving assistance control method for vehicle, and non-transitory storage medium storing program thereof" was invented by Koki Suwabe (Toyota, Japan) and Hiroto Katsuda (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving assistance control apparatus comprises a controller configured to perform, as a driving assistance control, a steering assistance control to automatically vary a steering angle of a host vehicle and/or an acceleration assistance control to automatically vary an acceleration of the host v...