US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Dec. 30 for "Travel control device, travel control method, and non-transitory recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,002, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Travel control device, travel control method, and non-transitory recording medium" was invented by Satoru Akahane (Yokohama, Japan), Terumoto Komori (Shizuoka-ken, Japan) and Shimpei Kokubo (Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A travel control device performs blind area avoidance control when a host vehicle is in a blind area, a relative speed which is a value obtained by subtracting a speed of the host vehicle from a speed of an adjacent vehicle is larger than a first relative speed threshold value, the relative speed is smaller than a second re...