ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,392, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Vehicle control method and vehicle control device" was invented by Daisuke Takei (Kanagawa, Japan), Shinya Saito (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yuta Akamatsu (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller executes processing including: before a lane change of an own vehicle to an adjacent lane by autonomous driving is started, acquiring lane marking information in front of the own vehicle and first lane width information from a camera and controlling a yaw angle of the own vehicle, based on the lane marking information and the first lane width info...