US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 15 for "Vehicle control device, vehicle control method, and storage medium storing vehicle control program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,557, issued on July 15, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle control device, vehicle control method, and storage medium storing vehicle control program" was invented by Jiro Miyawaki (Ebina, Japan) and Kinya Ishizuka (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor of a vehicle control device controls an electric motor such that torque for operating a steering wheel when a driver performs an operation to rotate the steering wheel matches a predetermined first target value in a predetermined first traveling scene in which lane tracing control is being executed, and controls the electric motor such tha...