US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 18 for "Vehicle control device including control based on determined ruts in the road" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,152, issued on March 18, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle control device including control based on determined ruts in the road" was invented by Takahiro Okano (Chiryu, Japan), Toru Takashima (Susono, Japan), Shun Maruyama (Susono, Japan) and Shun Mizoo (Zama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device includes: a steering device, a steering control device, a surroundings monitoring device, and a controller. The controller is configured to execute: a route calculating process of calculating a target route, a trajectory calculating process of calculating a target trajectory of an own ve...