US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 8 for "Vehicle control device for prohibiting lane changing, vehicle control method for prohibiting lane changing, and non-transitory recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,055, issued on July 8, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-ken, Japan).

"Vehicle control device for prohibiting lane changing, vehicle control method for prohibiting lane changing, and non-transitory recording medium" was invented by Daiki Yokoyama (Gotemba, Japan), Toshiya Hashimoto (Miyoshi, Japan), Shuntaro Okazaki (Shizuoka-ken, Japan), Shogo Tsuge (Fuji, Japan) and Kazuhisa Matsuda (Shizuoka-ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The vehicle control device controls a vehicle configured to receive power by non-contact from a power transmission coil when passing over the power transmission coil. The vehicle control device...