ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,977, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Travel controller and method for travel control" was invented by Tatsuya Sugano (Sunto-gun Shizuoka-ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A travel controller executes travel control of a vehicle including collision avoidance control, based on environmental information including control information received from a control device and environmental data outputted from an environmental sensor mounted on the vehicle, each indicating conditions around the vehicle. The travel controller regulates the speed of the vehicle when a delay time in receiving the co...