US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Oct. 20 for "Driving assistance device, driving assistance method, and non-transitory recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,767,163, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Driving assistance device, driving assistance method, and non-transitory recording medium" was invented by Yizhou Fan (Suginami-ku Tokyo-to, Japan) and Tsubasa Imoto (Koto-ku Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving assistance device acquires result of detection of a surrounding situation sensor detecting a surrounding situation of a host vehicle, determines whether a lane departure of the host vehicle is an intentional lane departure by a driver of the host vehicle based on the result of detection, and determines that the lane departure of ...