ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,656, issued on June 17, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Travel control device and travel control method" was invented by Yuji Watari (Toyota, Japan) and Ryo Irie (Okazaki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The travel control device includes an abnormality detection unit that detects an abnormality of the first automated driving control unit and the second automated driving control unit, a first switching unit that switches to the automated driving control of the other of the first automated driving control unit and the second automated driving control unit when one of the first automated driving control unit ...