ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,321, issued on Oct. 14, 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 driving control device controls driving of a subject vehicle at a predetermined driving assistance level using a processor under a condition of traveling behind a preceding vehicle. The processor determines whether another vehicle is detected in a second lane when the subject vehicle traveling in a first lane at the predetermined driving assistance level changes a lane to the second lane different from the first lane, ke...