US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 2 for "Vehicle controller, method, and computer program for vehicle control" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,935, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle controller, method, and computer program for vehicle control" was invented by Kenta Kumazaki (Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle controller includes a processor configured to detect an inconsistent section where information on a road represented in a first map is inconsistent with information on the road represented in a second map, make a first driving plan for a first section from a current position of a vehicle to a control switching point which is a start point of the inconsistent section or is nearer the vehicle than the s...