ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,993, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle driving assistance system for controlling vehicle acceleration" was invented by Hideki Kamatani (Nagoya, Japan) and Hideaki Ishihara (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle driving assistance system performs traveling assistance control under which an own vehicle automatically travels with. The traveling assistance control includes first constant-speed control for automatically controlling the acceleration of the own vehicle, based on a first vehicle-speed range including a set vehicle speed, such that the vehicle speed of the own ve...