ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,529, issued on May 20, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle control system and vehicle travel control device" was invented by Kazuki Nemoto (Susono, Japan), Shin Tanaka (Numazu, Japan) and Satoshi Nakamura (Susono, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a vehicle control system that controls a vehicle that performs autonomous driving, the vehicle control system includes an autonomous driving control device that generates a target trajectory for autonomous driving of the vehicle, and an vehicle travel control device that executes vehicle travel control that controls steering, acceleration, and deceleration of...