ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,256, issued on July 1, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vehicle control device" was invented by Kohei Dobashi (Susono, Japan) and Satoshi Yamanaka (Gotemba, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device for controlling a vehicle, the vehicle control device being configured to switch between automatic driving and manual driving of the vehicle, learn driving characteristics during the manual driving, and reflect a learned value of the driving characteristics in control during the automatic driving. Further, the vehicle control device controls the vehicle in a manner that, in the learned value of the ...