US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on May 20 for "Vehicle control device, information provision method, and non-transitory recording medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,488, issued on May 20, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle control device, information provision method, and non-transitory recording medium" was invented by Takamitsu Toyoura (Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device includes processor being configured to: perform automated driving control for automatically performing a driving operation of the vehicle; and provide a driving event which will occur at a point ahead in the direction of advance from a current point based on a driving plan for automated driving through the information provision device to the driver. The processor ...