US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on May 20 for "Vehicle control device, storage medium for storing computer program for vehicle control, and method for controlling vehicle" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,525, issued on May 20, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle control device, storage medium for storing computer program for vehicle control, and method for controlling vehicle" was invented by Kenta Kumazaki (Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device comprises a processor configured to set a reference lateral position, based on an intervehicular distance between the vehicle and another vehicle traveling on an adjacent lane, determine a target lateral position based on the reference lateral position and a current correction value for the reference lateral position, when the interv...