ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,484, issued on June 9, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle control device, vehicle control method, and storage medium" was invented by Hiroshi Toyoda (Numazu, Japan) and Shinya Kawamata (Mishima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The vehicle control device performs a process of controlling the notification device so that the information on the specific driving assist is provided to the driver in a predetermined period after the time point at which the control of the own vehicle is started so that the specific driving assist among the plurality of types of driving assist is provided to the driver, and/or a ...