US Patent Issued to Nissan Motor on Nov. 11 for "Vehicle travel control method and vehicle travel control device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,400, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Vehicle travel control method and vehicle travel control device" was invented by Hirotaka Kamimura (Kanagawa, Japan), Yuji Nagasawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Katsuhiko Degawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Keiichi Yamamoto (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle travel control method including: determining whether or not a target travel route of a vehicle traveling on a first road is a route leading to a second road, the second road branching off from the first road; when the target travel route is a route leading to the second road, calculating a fir...