ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,702, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Towing vehicle control device, towing vehicle control method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium" was invented by Naoki Yamamoto (Okazaki, Japan) and Shirou Monzaki (Mishima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A towing vehicle control device includes: a computation device that computes a target vehicle body speed and a target curvature of a towing vehicle from a target vehicle body speed and a target curvature of a towed vehicle configured to travel together with the towing vehicle provided with motive power, and that generates a control signal for...