US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 15 for "Control device, steering wheel, vehicle, control method, and computer-readable storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,538, issued on July 15, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Control device, steering wheel, vehicle, control method, and computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Tsutomu Hattori (Susono, Japan) and Arata Takada (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The control device, includes: an acquisition section configured to acquire a planned travel route of a vehicle; and a control section that, at a time of transitioning from autonomous driving to manual driving and on the basis of the planned travel route, controls a display portion configured to display grasping positions of a steering wheel that should be...