US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Jan. 20 for "Vehicle control apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,458, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle control apparatus" was invented by Kazuya Okamoto (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor of a vehicle control apparatus is configured to, in a case where a second object is present within a predetermined range obliquely behind a subject vehicle in a second traveling lane adjacent to a first traveling lane, limit an override function in a case where a first condition is satisfied, a second condition is satisfied, and a third condition is satisfied. The first condition is for determining that a risk of contact between a first object...