ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,008, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan).
"Vehicle control device and vehicle control method" was invented by Takuya Kume (Kariya-city, Japan) and Kazuki Izumi (Kariya-city, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for a vehicle configured to execute automated driving without monitoring obligation is described. A traveling environment of the vehicle is specified. Parallel-traveling avoiding control is executed based on the traveling environment specified by the traveling environment specifying unit during the automated driving without monitoring obligation. The parallel-traveling avoiding control...