US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 30 for "Lane change assist for inexperienced driver" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,033, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Lane change assist for inexperienced driver" was invented by Rohit Gupta (Santa Clara, Calif.), Amr Abdelraouf (Foster City, Calif.) and Kyungtae Han (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation includes one or more of receiving position data of an ego vehicle and of one or more surrounding vehicles of the ego vehicle via sensors of the ego vehicle while the ego vehicle and the surrounding vehicles are travelling along a road, predicting, via a mach...