US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 11 for "Driving support device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,711, issued on March 11, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Driving support device" was invented by Takuya Kaminade (Okazaki, Japan), Masaki Ikai (Toyota, Japan) and Masashi Oishi (Owariasahi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving support device including: an in-vehicle sensor configured to acquire and output each of position information relating to a position of an own vehicle, target information relating to a target positioned around the own vehicle, and operation information relating to an operation of an operating element of the own vehicle; and a control device having a lane departure prevention func...