ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,208,794, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vehicle control apparatus" was invented by Yusuke Tanaka (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control apparatus determines whether or not a confirmed abnormal state in which it can be confirmed that a driver of a vehicle has fallen into an abnormal state where he/she is unable to drive the vehicle is occurring. When it is determined that the confirmed abnormal state is occurring, the apparatus decelerates the vehicle at a normal deceleration DGnor. However, when it is predicated that a control limit of a lane keeping control will come bef...