ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,639, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vehicle control device and vehicle control method" was invented by Yusuke Fukui (Miyoshi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To enable appropriate execution of a deceleration control, provided is a control device comprising a setting unit configured to set a first vehicle ahead of an own vehicle in an adjacent, as a target that has a sign of lane change, when a state of the first vehicle and a second vehicle ahead of the first vehicle satisfy a predetermined condition, a control unit configured to execute a deceleration control, when the setting unit set ...