US Patent Issued to Nissan Motor, Renault on Nov. 25 for "Driving assist method and driving assist device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,435, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan) and Renault S.A.S. (Boulogne-Billancourt, France).

"Driving assist method and driving assist device" was invented by Takato Kurokawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Yoshiro Takamatsu (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yohei Mishina (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving assist method performs a lane change control to make a lane change to an adjacent lane. The method includes: detecting whether there is a request from the host vehicle to make a lane change to the adjacent lane; detecting whether there is any intention for another vehicle traveling in the adjacen...