ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,641, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Travel control device" was invented by Yuji Ikedo (Shizuoka-ken, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A travel control device includes an automatic braking device that automatically brakes an own vehicle; and a driving support ECU configured to acquire information on one of a curvature and a curvature radius of a traveling road in front of the own vehicle, calculate a target vehicle speed of the own vehicle based on the information, and automatically decelerate the own vehicle by the automatic braking device so that the vehicle speed of the own vehicle be...