ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,918, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Automobile and control method for automobile" was invented by Tomonori Nonami (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automobile configured to control a drive device, a brake device, a steering device such that traveling is performed in a driving mode selected by a driver from a full-autonomous driving mode, a semi-autonomous driving mode, and a manual driving mode, using information from a periphery recognition device that acquires information about the periphery of a vehicle, and a control method for the automobile are provided. An electronic contr...