ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,478, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Autonomous driving control device" was invented by Yoji Kunihiro (Susono, Japan), Takahiro Kojo (Gotemba, Japan) and Yutaka Aoki (Mishima, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous driving control device includes a steering determination unit that determines whether a driver has operated a steering unit while driving with an actuator controlled in a first control mode, an operation speed calculation unit that calculates at least one of a deviation speed, which is the change rate of deviation between a target steering angle during autonomous driving...