US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 1 for "Traveling assistance method, traveling assistance device, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,246, issued on July 1, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Traveling assistance method, traveling assistance device, and storage medium" was invented by Yukikazu Tsuda (Susono, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Offset control of offsetting a traveling position of a vehicle to increase a lateral distance from an approaching vehicle in an adjacent lane is actuated. When the offset control is actuated, an index value that is decided from an actuation history of the offset control and in which a higher weight is given to an actuation history of the offset control in the recent past than to an actuation history of the ...