US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 18 for "Vehicle driving assistance apparatus, vehicle driving assistance method, and computer-readable storage medium storing vehicle driving assistance program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,117, issued on March 18, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle driving assistance apparatus, vehicle driving assistance method, and computer-readable storage medium storing vehicle driving assistance program" was invented by Nobuaki Fukuchi (Numazu Shizuoka-ken, Japan) and Daiki Yasui (Atsugi Kanagawa-ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The vehicle driving assistance apparatus determines whether an own vehicle departs from an own vehicle moving lane while executing a steering avoidance control. When determining that the own vehicle departs from the own vehicle moving lane while executing the steering av...