US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Dec. 2 for "Deciding a vehicle stop position in a vicinity of an exit when following a leading vehicle" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,089, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Deciding a vehicle stop position in a vicinity of an exit when following a leading vehicle" was invented by Yuji Ebihara (Susono, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving assist device for a vehicle includes: a storage device that stores map information; and a processor that executes a process of following up a leading vehicle. In the process of following up the leading vehicle, the processor detects an exit of a traveling road, based on at least one of the map information and a recognition sensor equipped in the vehicle, the exit being positioned forwa...