ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,179, issued on July 8, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Method and apparatus for supporting driving of vehicle" was invented by Tomohiro Kitaoka (Susono, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Vehicle control for a lane change from a first lane to a second lane is executed. In this vehicle control, a target space is set in the second lane based on information on a space in the second lane. When a speed of a traffic stream of the second lane is higher than that in the first lane, it is determined whether acceleration of the vehicle is able to perform in a front space of the vehicle in the first lane. When it is deter...