US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 11 for "Vehicle controller, and method and computer program for distance notification" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,741, issued on March 11, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle controller, and method and computer program for distance notification" was invented by Takao Kashu (Tokyo-to, Japan), Yasutaka Teramae (Kawasaki, Japan), Hiroki Ukai (Kariya, Japan) and Masahiro Goto (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle controller includes a memory configured to store map information including information on a predetermined area used in autonomous driving control of a vehicle; and a processor configured to: refer to the map information to identify an autonomous-driving practicable point at which a planned travel...