ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,427, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Lane departure suppression device" was invented by Chenyu Wang (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lane departure suppression device includes an object information acquisition device that acquires information on an object around a vehicle, and a control unit that executes, when determination is made that there is a possibility that the vehicle crosses a departure determination reference line based on information acquired by the object information acquisition device, lane departure suppression control such that the possibility is reduced. The con...