US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 8 for "Vehicle control system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,880, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle control system" was invented by Ryosuke Hata (Mishima, Japan), Atsushi Kodama (Susono, Japan) and Toshihiko Seki (Hadano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The vehicle control system generates a target trajectory based on the driving environment of the vehicle, and performs vehicle travel control for controlling the vehicle to follow the target trajectory. The vehicle control system calculates a predicted trajectory or a degree of deviation between the predicted vehicle state and the target trajectory predicted from the current vehicle state of t...