US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Nov. 11 for "Vehicle control apparatus and vehicle control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,439, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi, Japan).

"Vehicle control apparatus and vehicle control method" was invented by Xi Chen (Nagoya, Japan) and Kazuya Okamoto (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control apparatus performs a front collision avoidance control when the frontward object satisfies a predetermined front collision condition, and performs a side collision avoidance control when the sideward object satisfies a predetermined side collision condition. The vehicle control apparatus suppresses performing the side collision avoidance control in a case where the sideward object is ...