US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Nov. 3 for "Vehicle driving assistance apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,211, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi, Japan).

"Vehicle driving assistance apparatus" was invented by Iori Terabayashi (Susono, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle driving assistance apparatus executes a lane change control of autonomously performing a lane change of an own vehicle. The apparatus acquires actual lane change characteristics during a manual lane change period, and performs an autonomous lane change by the lane change control in accordance with target lane change characteristics set based on the actual lane change characteristics. The apparatus acquires, as the actual lane change ch...