US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on April 8 for "Driving assistance device, driving assistance method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,470, issued on April 8, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Driving assistance device, driving assistance method, and program" was invented by Nobuaki Fukuchi (Numazu, Japan) and Daiki Yasui (Atsugi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To increase steering angle followability of automatic steering, provided is a driving assistance device for executing collision avoidance control of controlling a steering angle of an own vehicle such that the own vehicle travels along a target trajectory which enables the own vehicle to avoid a collision with an obstacle. The driving assistance device includes: a setting unit config...