US Patent Issued to Nissan Motor on Oct. 21 for "Vehicle lane change control method and vehicle lane change control device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,991, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Vehicle lane change control method and vehicle lane change control device" was invented by Yasuhisa Hayakawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Fuminori Takeda (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yoshiya Kusatomi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving control method is performed to execute a lane-change control for controlling a host vehicle to autonomously change lanes from a first lane to an adjacent second lane using a processor of a driving control device that controls vehicle speed and steering of the host vehicle traveling in the first lane in an autonomous ...