ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,505, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Vehicle control device" was invented by Wataru Sato (Kariya, Japan), Shogi Fukukawa (Kariya, Japan) and Yohei Nagai (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device to be mounted on a vehicle includes: a target steering angle calculation unit configured to calculate a target steering angle according to a target position to which the vehicle is to be moved or a situation of a steering angle; a ratio determination unit configured to determine a ratio of steering angles of a front wheel and a rear wheel of the vehicle based on a front-rear accele...