US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Aug. 12 for "Vehicle control device, storage medium for storing computer program for vehicle control, and method for controlling vehicle" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,354, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle control device, storage medium for storing computer program for vehicle control, and method for controlling vehicle" was invented by Kenta Kumazaki (Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device has a processor configured to determine whether or not a driver is attempting to move a vehicle from a traveling lane in which the vehicle is traveling to an adjacent lane, based on a monitor image taken of an area near a driving seat, and to activate the engine when it has been determined that the driver is attempting to move the v...