ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,726, issued on June 17, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vehicle control device" was invented by Kota Kimura (Anjo, Japan), Takahiro Adachi (Chiryu, Japan) and Yu Sakai (Nagakute, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "During execution of steering reaction force control, when a lane change of a host vehicle is made, a vehicle control device sets a steering reaction force given to a steering operation in the direction of the lane change of the host vehicle to a reaction force of a smaller value than a reaction force of a standard value. Further, when a vehicle approach condition that another vehicle traveling in a l...