ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,625, issued on March 31, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Vehicle control device" was invented by Ichiji Yamada (Kariya, Japan) and Akira Kato (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device includes an analysis unit configured to analyze a road surface condition based on a captured image that is captured by an imaging device that captures an image of a road surface in a traveling direction of a vehicle, a switching unit configured to switch a control mode indicating a level of control related to traveling of the vehicle based on the road surface condition and a vehicle characteristic that is base...