US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on June 23 for "Driving assistance device, driving assistance method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,112, issued on June 23, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Driving assistance device, driving assistance method, and storage medium" was invented by Yusuke Fukui (Toyota, Japan) and Takashi Moriya (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving assistance device executes dual-side braking steering avoidance control for forcibly decelerating a target vehicle by applying braking forces to wheels on both sides of the target vehicle and forcibly turning the target vehicle to swerve around an object in a case where a turning amount increase request condition is not satisfied. When forcibly turning the target veh...