US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Nov. 11 for "Follow-up travel support device, follow-up travel support method and non transitory recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,402, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Follow-up travel support device, follow-up travel support method and non transitory recording medium" was invented by Sui Kurihashi (Sunto-gun, Japan), Yoshiaki Atsumi (Susono, Japan) and Hayato Shirai (Tagata-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The follow-up travel support device includes a processor configured to detect a surrounding vehicle around a host vehicle, and set a target vehicle speed of the host vehicle. The processor is configured to set the target vehicle speed to a speed different from a set speed of the host vehicle until a partner ve...