ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,904, issued on July 28, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan).

"Vehicle control device and vehicle control method" was invented by Asuka Sakai (Kariya-city, Japan), Taro Kobayashi (Kariya-city, Japan), Natsuko Miyazaki (Kariya-city, Japan), Masafumi Nohara (Kariya-city, Japan), Haozhou Li (Kariya-city, Japan), Kazuhiro Matsui (Kariya-city, Japan) and Jinhae Choi (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a technique for controlling a first vehicle, display information and position specifying information are received from a second vehicle different from the first vehicle via inter-vehicle communications. The disp...