US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Oct. 27 for "Travel control device, travel control method, and non-transitory recording medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,014, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Travel control device, travel control method, and non-transitory recording medium" was invented by Ken Tanabe (Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A travel control device includes an image recognition unit which performs image recognition of a pattern drawn on a road surface by light irradiated from a surrounding vehicle, a prediction unit which predicts behavior of the surrounding vehicle based on a result of the image recognition of the pattern, and a travel control unit which controls travel of a host vehicle based on the behavior of the surro...