ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,654, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Autonomous driving system, path plan generation method, and storage medium" was invented by Naoyuki Muramatsu (Susono, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous driving system according to the present disclosure is an autonomous driving system that causes a vehicle to autonomously travel along a path plan, and includes a memory and a processor. The processor is configured to execute a determination process of determining whether offset processing is necessary, the offset processing offsetting the path plan in a lane width direction with respect to ...