US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Jan. 27 for "Vehicle control device, vehicle control method and non-transitory storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,100, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle control device, vehicle control method and non-transitory storage medium" was invented by Yuki Kozono (Okazaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When the vehicle executes adaptive cruise control in a state in which the inter-vehicle distance to the preceding vehicle is set to a set distance selected from a plurality of reference distances whose magnitude changes in units of the first change amount, setting a proposal unit capable of proposing to a vehicle occupant that the interval be changed by a second change amount smaller than the first chan...