ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,497, issued on July 15, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vehicle travel control apparatus" was invented by Takeshi Matsumura (Numazu, Japan) and Hirotada Otake (Susono, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle travel control apparatus includes an actuator and an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to determine whether a driver of a vehicle is in an abnormal state where the driver loses an ability of driving the vehicle. The electronic control unit is also configured to stop the vehicle at an abnormality determination time point onward, and control a vehicle speed by using the ...