US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Aug. 12 for "Automatic speed control device, automatic speed control method, and automatic speed control program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,244, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Automatic speed control device, automatic speed control method, and automatic speed control program" was invented by Masao Ueyama (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automatic speed control device includes: an upper limit lateral acceleration degree setting part for setting an upper limit lateral acceleration degree; a road curvature acquiring part for acquiring a value of a curvature parameter relating to curvature of a road; an upper limit speed setting part for calculating a speed of the vehicle at which if the vehicle runs on that road, t...