ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,039, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Travel controller and travel control method" was invented by Ryusuke Kuroda (Tokyo-to, Japan), Kenichiro Aoki (Machida, Japan), Tadashi Okubo (Machida, Japan), Takuya Fujiki (Tokyo-to, Japan), Tetsuro Sugiura (Chofu, Japan) and Kunio Goto (Tokyo-to, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A travel controller of a vehicle that can travel on a road under autonomous driving control detecting two-wheelers, including bicycles, located in surroundings of the vehicle from surrounding data representing the surroundings of the vehicle generated by a surrounding senso...