US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA, AISIN on April 22 for "Travel controller and method for travel control" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,799, issued on April 22, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and AISIN Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Travel controller and method for travel control" was invented by Yuki Horiuchi (Tokyo-to, Japan), Taku Mitsumori (Kariya, Japan), Yuji Yamanishi (Tokyo-to, Japan), Yuki Takeda (Kariya, Japan) and Masahiro Ishihara (Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A travel controller detects objects from an environmental image representing surroundings of a vehicle capable of traveling under autonomous driving control satisfying a predetermined safety standard; detects a looking direction of a driver of the vehicle from a face i...