US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on May 5 for "Traveling control device, traveling control method, and non-transitory recording medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,397, issued on May 5, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Traveling control device, traveling control method, and non-transitory recording medium" was invented by Masamichi Ohsugi (Shizuoka-ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A traveling control device determines whether a travel direction of an own lane in which a host vehicle is traveling and the travel direction of an adjoining lane adjoining the own lane are the same, determines whether structure of a road on which the host vehicle is traveling changes, and restricts movement of the host vehicle from the own lane to the adjoining lane when it is determined t...