US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Oct. 7 for "Vehicle control device, vehicle control method, and non-transitory recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,705, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle control device, vehicle control method, and non-transitory recording medium" was invented by Masashi Nose (Nagoya, Japan), Tomoaki Miyazawa (Nagoya, Japan), Kazuya Kumazawa (Nagoya, Japan), Miki Tsujino (Nagakute, Japan) and Tsukasa Kitazawa (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device includes a processor which, when an operation member operable by an occupant of a vehicle has been operated, causes the vehicle to execute lane change assistance control, wherein the processor: executes first lane change assistance control that...