ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,789, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).
"Driving control method and driving control device" was invented by Yasuhisa Hayakawa (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor of a driving control device that controls driving of a subject vehicle at a predetermined driving assistance level determines whether a transition request that requires transition of a driving assistance level from a first driving assistance level to a second driving assistance level higher than the first driving assistance level is input, and relaxes the transition condition for the transition of the driving a...