US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 25 for "Vehicle control system and vehicle control device for autonomous vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,042, issued on March 25, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle control system and vehicle control device for autonomous vehicle" was invented by Yoshinori Watanabe (Gotemba, Japan), Kazuyuki Fujita (Gotemba, Japan), Takayuki Goto (Yokohama, Japan), Masahiro Harada (Hadano, Japan) and Nobuhide Kamata (Susono, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control system for an autonomous vehicle includes: a first control device configured to generate a first driving plan including desired lateral lane driving positions or desired lateral lane driving position ranges; a plurality of first sensors configured to ...