ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,473, issued on June 9, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Lane change support device" was invented by Hideyuki Wakamiya (Mishima, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The lane change support device is configured to estimate a lane speed of another vehicle traveling on a lane of a lane change destination, determine a minimum length of a space in a lane of a lane change destination necessary for lane change based on a lane speed of the other vehicle, estimate an actual length of a space in the lane of the lane change destination, and determine whether lane change is possible based on the minimum length and the actual ...