US Patent Issued to NIO TECHNOLOGY (ANHUI) on Oct. 14 for "Automated lane changing device and method for vehicle" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,317, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to NIO TECHNOLOGY (ANHUI) Co. LTD (Hefei, China).

"Automated lane changing device and method for vehicle" was invented by Guokai Hong (Hefei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to an automated lane changing method for a vehicle. The method includes: obtaining a plurality of areas in a target lane; calculating, based on information about an obstacle included in each area in the plurality of areas, an expected lane changing point for the area; and selecting, based on the expected lane changing point and an availability check result for the plurality of areas, a first area in...