US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on May 5 for "Vehicle driving assist device, vehicle, vehicle driving assist method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,466, issued on May 5, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle driving assist device, vehicle, vehicle driving assist method, and storage medium" was invented by Shintaro Saigo (Nisshin, Japan), Kentaro Hamada (Toyota, Japan), Keigo Miyama (Toyota, Japan), Takeshi Hamaguchi (Seto, Japan) and Shusaku Sugamoto (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle driving assist device includes a processor that controls a steering reaction force to be applied to a steering operation performed by a driver of a vehicle. The processor acquires a size of an intersection when the driver intends the vehicle to turn right ...