US Patent Issued to DENSO on May 12 for "Vehicle control device and vehicle control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,678, issued on May 12, 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 that performs automatic driving without monitoring obligation is configured to: identity an obstacle which prevents the vehicle from traveling; identify, when the obstacle is identified, an avoidance measure which is a measure that allows the vehicle to avoid the obstacle; and permit, during the automatic driving without monitoring obligation, an avoidance based on a devia...