US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Oct. 21 for "Vehicle control apparatus controlling an own vehicle based on detection of a cut-in vehicle" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,962, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle control apparatus controlling an own vehicle based on detection of a cut-in vehicle" was invented by Takashi Chiba (Gotemba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The vehicle control apparatus includes a cut-in detection unit for detecting a cut-in vehicle from an adjacent lane in front of a front vehicle traveling in front of an own vehicle, a deceleration prediction unit for predicting whether deceleration occurs in the front vehicle, and a travel control unit for performing acceleration suppression control or deceleration control of the own vehicl...