ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,311, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vehicle control device" was invented by Masamu Chiba (Numazu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device is a device that can execute obstacle avoidance control and lane departure prevention control. The obstacle avoidance control sets a target trajectory for avoiding an obstacle that is present in the forward traveling direction of a host vehicle and controls the host vehicle so that the host vehicle travels along the target trajectory. The lane departure prevention control prevents the host vehicle from departing from a driving lane, in...