ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,960, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vehicle driving assistance apparatus" was invented by Kohei Tochigi (Shizuoka-ken, Japan) and Kota Endo (Mishima, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle driving assistance apparatus executes a speed control of controlling a moving speed of an own vehicle to a target speed or less when the own vehicle moves on a curved road, and the moving speed of the own vehicle is greater than the target speed. While executing the speed control, the vehicle driving assistance apparatus controls a deceleration of the own vehicle by the speed control such that a dec...