US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 11 for "Vehicle controller, vehicle control method, and computer program for vehicle control" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,755, issued on March 11, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle controller, vehicle control method, and computer program for vehicle control" was invented by Takuro Kikuchi (Edogawa-ku Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle controller includes a processor configured to determine whether to transfer driving control of a vehicle under autonomous driving control to a driver, notify the driver of a transition demand via a notification device in the case where driving control will be transferred to the driver, execute deceleration control of the vehicle at predetermined timing after notification t...