ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,234, issued on June 30, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan).
"Vehicle travel control device" was invented by Motoki Tachiiri (Nisshin-city, Japan) and Yuta Suzuki (Kariya-city, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle travel control device controls an independent turn wheel vehicle or a swivel three-wheeled vehicle having three or more wheels. The device instructs a turn with a normal driving operation, instructs a pivot turn for setting one wheel as a turning center and driving other wheels using a target instruction value, turns each wheel individually according to the turning center of the pivot turn, and brakes...