US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on June 16 for "Vehicle driving assist apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,726, issued on June 16, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle driving assist apparatus" was invented by Masaki Matsunaga (Odawara, Japan), Atsuko Yamada (Toyota, Japan), Kohsuke Fujii (Toyota, Japan), Hideki Kamatani (Nagoya, Japan), Yuzuru Kamogari (Toyota, Japan) and Soichi Okubo (Okazaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The vehicle driving assist apparatus can execute at least one of an acceleration/deceleration control as a driving assist control to automatically accelerate and decelerate an own vehicle and a steering control as the driving assist control to automatically steer the own vehicle. The ve...