US Patent Issued to DENSO on Sept. 2 for "Vehicle control device, vehicle control method, and storage medium storing vehicle control program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,864, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Vehicle control device, vehicle control method, and storage medium storing vehicle control program" was invented by Hironori Obayashi (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "External sensors of a vehicle are individually set with sensing regions through external surfaces. Cleaning nozzles of the vehicle inject cleaning fluid to individually clean the external surfaces of the external sensors. An injection control unit performs classification of the cleaning nozzles, which correspond to the external surfaces whose sensing regions of the external sensors overla...