US Patent Issued to DENSO on Nov. 3 for "Vehicle control device and vehicle control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,147, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan).

"Vehicle control device and vehicle control method" was invented by Takayuki Matsumoto (Kariya-city, Japan) and Nobuyasu Okabe (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control apparatus determines a location of a key device through wireless communication with the key device. The vehicle control apparatus is configured to perform a wireless authentication process of determining whether a communication partner is the key device and a location determination process of determining whether the communication partner is present in a vehicle, and to i...