US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Feb. 10 for "Vehicle control device, vehicle control method, and non-transitory storage medium storing vehicle control program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,450, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle control device, vehicle control method, and non-transitory storage medium storing vehicle control program" was invented by Masashi Nose (Nagoya, Japan), Tomoaki Miyazawa (Nagoya, Japan), Kazuya Kumazawa (Nagoya, Japan), Miki Tsujino (Nagakute, Japan) and Tsukasa Kitazawa (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device that is installed at a vehicle configured to perform lane change assistance and that comprises a processor, wherein the processor is configured to: receive a request for a lane change by lane change assistance fr...