US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on June 23 for "Vehicle control device, storage medium storing computer program, and method for automatic vehicle control with automatic control prohibited region and control transfer region" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,169, issued on June 23, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle control device, storage medium storing computer program, and method for automatic vehicle control with automatic control prohibited region and control transfer region" was invented by Ryuta Hashimoto (Tokyo-to, Japan), Takahiro Seta (Yokohama, Japan), Kota Harada (Tokyo-to, Japan) and Soichi Yoshino (Ichikawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device has a processor configured to determine whether an automatic control prohibited region is included on a traveling lane, set a control transfer region on the traveling lane before th...