US Patent Issued to DENSO, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 1 for "Vehicle control device and vehicle control method for controlling speed according to lighting state of traffic light" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,634, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle control device and vehicle control method for controlling speed according to lighting state of traffic light" was invented by Yasuhiko Mukai (Tokyo), Tomohito Terazawa (Tokyo), Genki Kitahara (Tokyo) and Norihiro Kurose (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "By a vehicle control device or a vehicle control method for controlling a speed of a vehicle, a lighting state of a main light of a traffic light and a travel permission direction of an arrow light of the traffic light is recognized, and stop deceleration cont...