US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on June 16 for "Vehicle travelling control device and method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,657, issued on June 16, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle travelling control device and method" was invented by Yusuke Fukui (Miyoshi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle traveling control device includes a sensor for detecting a steering operation, an object information acquisition device for acquiring object information around a vehicle, an automatic braking device for automatically braking the vehicle, and a driving support ECU for controlling the automatic braking device, in which the driving support ECU activates the automatic braking device to perform automatic braking for automatically br...