ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,182, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vehicle" was invented by Atsushi Ayabe (Toyota, Japan), Akihiro Kitao (Nisshin, Japan) and Takeshi Yasuda (Kuwana, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a power unit configured to output drive power, a brake device, and a controller configured to execute predetermined travel control to control the power unit and the brake device such that the vehicle runs according to an inter-vehicle distance from a preceding vehicle or a difference between a set vehicle speed and an actual vehicle speed. The controller is configured to, when an absolute ...