ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,077, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Driving support device" was invented by Yuta Ikezawa (Toyota, Japan) and Kohei Tochigi (Shizuoka-ken, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a driving support device (1) including a control device configured to enter, in a first situation that is a situation in which an own vehicle travels in a predetermined region (X) before an intersection and an adjacent traveling lane is absent on a first direction side in a crossing direction of a traveling lane (L0) on which the own vehicle is traveling, a state in which start of driving support for changing...