US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on April 29 for "Automated driving system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,117, issued on April 29, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Automated driving system" was invented by Hironori Ito (Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The automated driving system includes a vehicle speed detection device for detecting a speed of a vehicle, a display device capable of displaying a running lane and an adjacent lane of the vehicle, and a processor configured to control display content of the display device, and execute an autonomous lane change of the vehicle. The processor is configured to prohibit the autonomous lane change of the vehicle when a speed of the vehicle is less than a predet...