US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Feb. 11 for "Vehicle controller, method, and computer program for controlling vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,221,135, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle controller, method, and computer program for controlling vehicle" was invented by Takahiro Seta (Yokohama, Japan), Ryuta Hashimoto (Tokyo-to, Japan), Kota Harada (Tokyo-to, Japan) and Soichi Yoshino (Ichikawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle controller detects a travel lane on which a vehicle is traveling, and determines whether the position of the detected travel lane relative to an edge of a road may differ from an actual position. The vehicle controller further identifies first control of the vehicle required on the travel lane and...