ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,784, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vehicle control system" was invented by Masakatsu Onitsuka (Nisshin, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control system includes an on-vehicle sensor for outputting a piece of information regarding an object around an own vehicle and a piece of information regarding a travel state of the own vehicle, a driving assistant ECU which has, as a risk reduction function, at least one of a lane departure prevention function and an emergency stop function, and a switching apparatus for enabling and disabling the risk reduction function. The lane departure...