US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Nov. 3 for "Travel control device for vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,310, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Travel control device for vehicle" was invented by Ryo Matsumoto (Toyota, Japan) and Jiro Miyawaki (Ebina, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A travel control device for a vehicle includes an object information acquisition device, an automatic steering device, and an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to gradually decrease a target correction quantity of a steering angle when the electronic control unit determines that travel control needs to be ended. The electronic control unit is configured to change a degree of decrease o...