US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 30 for "Vehicle control device, vehicle control method and program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,989, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle control device, vehicle control method and program" was invented by Hidehito Yokokawa (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To effectively prevent the traveling of the rear vehicles from being interfered by LCA of the own vehicle, provided is a vehicle control device configured to execute a lane change assist control for automatically changing a lane from a lane traveling on a own vehicle to a target lane adjacent to the lane. The vehicle control device is configured to obtain a relative distance and a relative speed between the own vehicl...