US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Nov. 11 for "Driving assistance device, driving assistance method, and program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,408, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Driving assistance device, driving assistance method, and program" was invented by Daisuke Shiraishi (Nisshin, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To increase convenience of an operation performed from a vehicle stop state until ACC is started or resumed, provided is a driving assistance device for a vehicle, including: a control unit (11) configured to execute travel control of at least one of constant-speed travel control or follow-up travel control, and to stop the travel control during stop of the own vehicle (100); a detection unit (43, 13) configured...