US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA on Feb. 18 for "Transport-related object avoidance" (Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,176, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas).

"Transport-related object avoidance" was invented by Stephen Paul McFarland Jr. (Allen, Texas), Satyajit P. Patne (The Colony, Texas) and Albert Scott Ludwin (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation includes one or more of determining, by a transport, a potential impact with an object at a location in a lane on a road and, when a distance away from the location exists within the lane, maneuvering, by the transport, the distance within the lane to avoid the potential impact."

The patent was filed on March 1, 2021, under Appli...