US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on May 27 for "Driving support apparatus, driving support method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,941, issued on May 27, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Driving support apparatus, driving support method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Yuki Yamaguchi (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a driving support apparatus including: a surrounding sensor configured to acquire surrounding information on another vehicle present in front of a vehicle and dividing lines extending in front of the vehicle; and a control unit configured to: execute adaptive cruise control (ACC) of, when a preceding vehicle is determined to be present based on the surrounding informat...