US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Nov. 18 for "Vehicle control device, vehicle control method, non-transitory storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,972, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle control device, vehicle control method, non-transitory storage medium" was invented by Masashi Nose (Nagoya, Japan), Tomoaki Miyazawa (Nagoya, Japan), Kazuya Kumazawa (Nagoya, Japan), Miki Tsujino (Nagakute, Japan) and Tsukasa Kitazawa (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device including a processor that, after a first lane change control has been executed on a vehicle traveling in a cruising lane to move the vehicle to a target lane, is configured to execute a second lane change control on the vehicle to return the vehic...