ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,896, issued on June 24, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Track deviation prevention device" was invented by Masahiro Fujita (Susono, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving assistance ECU acquires, as a lateral margin distance, a larger distance out of a distance of a space formed between an object and a left lane marking in a track width direction and a distance of a space formed between the object and a right side lane marking in the track width direction when the object is present in front of the host vehicle. The ECU determines whether the probability that a host vehicle deviates from a track when the ...