US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on June 30 for "Vehicle driving assistance apparatus, vehicle driving assistance method, and computer-readable storage medium storing vehicle driving assistance program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,241, issued on June 30, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle driving assistance apparatus, vehicle driving assistance method, and computer-readable storage medium storing vehicle driving assistance program" was invented by Takahiko Ogihara (Gotemba, Japan) and Shogo Ito (Suntou-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle driving assistance apparatus executes a deceleration assistance control of autonomously applying a braking force to an own vehicle to decelerate the own vehicle, and a coasting control of causing the own vehicle to coast. The apparatus executes the coasting control when a predetermine...