ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,208,835, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vehicle control device" was invented by Naoyuki Muramatsu (Ichikawa, Japan), Yushi Shibaike (Susono, Japan) and Naoki Nagakura (Chofu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device includes an offset unit configured to execute offset processing for offsetting the target lateral position such that the target lateral position is separated from the first lane, when a relationship between the first vehicle and the vehicle satisfies an offset condition. The offset unit is configured not to execute the offset processing even if the relationship be...