ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,085, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Lane change support device" was invented by Kentaro Takahashi (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lane change support device includes a control unit configured to execute lane change control for enabling a vehicle to automatically change lanes from a lane in which the vehicle is traveling to an adjacent lane. The control unit counts a holding time for which an operation part that is operated to a predetermined operation position to start the lane change control is continuously held at the operation position, starts the lane change control when t...