US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 17 for "Driving assistance device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,909, issued on March 17, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Driving assistance device" was invented by Yukikazu Tsuda (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The driving assistance device controls lateral movement of the vehicle. The driving assistance device includes a steering operation actuator that steers the wheels, a detection device that detects the position of the driver's hand touching the steering wheel, and an electronic control unit that controls the lateral direction of the vehicle. In lateral control, the electronic control unit controls the steering operation actuator so that the vehicle later...