ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,669, issued on July 7, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vehicle control apparatus" was invented by Takaomi Kinugawa (Kariya-city, Japan), Tooru Takahashi (Kariya-city, Japan), Yuki Tezuka (Toyota, Japan) and Naoki Kusumoto (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control apparatus for a vehicle includes a monitoring sensor and a brake apparatus. The vehicle control apparatus determines whether a pre-preceding vehicle is present in front of a preceding vehicle in front of an own vehicle in a vehicle advancing direction. In response to the pre-preceding vehicle is ...