US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Dec. 30 for "Vehicle selection device and vehicle selection method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,122, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle selection device and vehicle selection method" was invented by Hiroki Terashita (Susono, Japan), Hayato Shirai (Shizuoka-ken, Japan) and Naoyuki Kurake (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle selection device includes a processor. The processor is configured to execute a selection process of selecting, as a target vehicle to be followed by a specific vehicle, a preceding vehicle candidate that satisfies one or more selection conditions based on surrounding vehicle information being information on one or more preceding vehicle candida...