US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Aug. 5 for "Follow-up travel support device, follow-up travel support method and non transitory recording medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,846, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Follow-up travel support device, follow-up travel support method and non transitory recording medium" was invented by Takahiro Matsunaga (Mishima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The follow-up travel support device includes a processor configured to acquire information about surrounding vehicles around a host vehicle, select a preceding vehicle suitable as a follow-up target of the host vehicle based on the information about the surrounding vehicles, and propose to an occupant of the host vehicle a follow-up travel to the preceding vehicle by the host ve...