US Patent Issued to DENSO, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on April 21 for "Vehicle control apparatus and vehicle control program product" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,165, issued on April 21, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle control apparatus and vehicle control program product" was invented by Ryotaro Araki (Tokyo), Yohei Masui (Tokyo), Yuji Kosaka (Tokyo) and Naoki Kusumoto (Okazaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a vehicle control apparatus, an acquiring unit acquires factor information that causes acceleration or deceleration of the own vehicle while the own vehicle is subjected to the acceleration/deceleration control. A setting unit sets, based on the factor information, a maximum level of deceleration and/or a maximum le...