US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Aug. 26 for "Vehicle driving assist apparatus, vehicle driving assist method, and vehicle driving assist program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,792, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle driving assist apparatus, vehicle driving assist method, and vehicle driving assist program" was invented by Takahiro Yamamoto (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle driving assist apparatus executes a constant speed moving control to autonomously control a moving speed of an own vehicle to a set moving speed. The vehicle driving assist apparatus pauses the constant speed moving control and executes an intermittent braking control when the own vehicle moves down a slope having a gradient smaller than a predetermined gradient thresho...