US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Oct. 27 for "Vehicle control device and vehicle control method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,986, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle control device and vehicle control method" was invented by Hikaru Akimoto (Mishima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control ECU executes a collision avoidance preparation operation when there is a first moving object in the case where a host vehicle intends to make a left turn at an intersection, and when there is a second moving object in the case where the host vehicle intends to make a right turn at the intersection. The first moving object is a moving object that is not detected by a surrounding object detection device and that is...