US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA, DENSO on Sept. 23 for "Controller, method, and recording medium for reducing frequency of autonomous control level application" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,847, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Controller, method, and recording medium for reducing frequency of autonomous control level application" was invented by Wataru Kawashima (Nisshin, Japan), Ryusuke Kuroda (Tokyo-to, Japan), Kenichiro Aoki (Machida, Japan), Takehiko Hanada (Hiratsuka, Japan) and Takuya Fujiki (Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When an object that may possibly collide with a vehicle is detected from a sensor signal of one of sensors mounted on the vehicle, a vehicle controller changes the level of autonomous driving control appli...