US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Nov. 4 for "Vehicle controller, method, and computer program for vehicle control" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,542, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle controller, method, and computer program for vehicle control" was invented by Kenta Kumazaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle controller includes a processor configured to execute stop control to stop a host vehicle in a first lane on which the vehicle is traveling or continuation control to continue entry of the host vehicle into a second lane merged with the first lane and to transfer driving control to a driver, upon interruption of merging control during execution of the merging control, interrupt the merging control and execute set...