US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 25 for "Vehicle controller and method for controlling vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,011, issued on March 25, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle controller and method for controlling vehicle" was invented by Yuki Yoshihama (Tokyo-to, Japan), Taiyo Uejima (Tokyo-to, Japan), Toshiki Furutani (Tokyo-to, Japan) and Yoshinao Takemae (Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle controller includes a processor configured to: detect a lane being traveled by the vehicle, set a planned trajectory to be traveled by the vehicle along the detected lane, detect a lane line demarcating the lane being traveled by the vehicle and an obstacle in an area around the vehicle, identify an effective...