US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Dec. 9 for "Vehicle controller, method, and computer program for vehicle control" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,916, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle controller, method, and computer program for vehicle control" was invented by Kenta Kumazaki (Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle controller includes a memory configure to store a first map representing information on a road and a second map representing information on the road less accurately than the first map; and a processor configured to determine whether an involvement requirement for requesting a driver of a vehicle to be involved in driving the vehicle is satisfied, and give notification of a request for involvement in dri...