US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 25 for "Vehicle driving support device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,012, issued on March 25, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle driving support device" was invented by Jiro Miyawaki (Susono, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle driving support device sets a steering force of a reference value as an intervention steering force to set a target steering force and executes lane deviation suppression control, when a straight lane deviation condition or a curve inner lane deviation condition is satisfied while a pre-intervention in-phase condition is not satisfied. The pre-intervention in-phase condition is a condition that a steering operation force that is equal to o...