ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,891, issued on March 17, 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 vehicle control device specifies a travel location of a subject vehicle; and executes a location target speed control, which is a speed control with respect to a location as a control target for automatically changing a speed of the vehicle when a travel location of the vehicle is a specific location where a speed change of the vehicle is required due to a structure of a road. The vehicle co...