ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,834, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Vehicle control device, vehicle control method, and computer program product" was invented by Harutsugu Fukumoto (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device is configured to control a vehicle equipped with (i) an optical sensor configured to acquire a reflected light image by sensing reflected light of irradiated light and (ii) a sensing camera configured to acquire a camera image according to intensity of outside light in a sensing area which overlaps with a sensing area of the optical sensor. The vehicle control device includes an extra...