US Patent Issued to DENSO on Sept. 22 for "Vehicle control apparatus and vehicle control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,635, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan).

"Vehicle control apparatus and vehicle control method" was invented by Yu Maeda (Nisshin-city, Japan) and Atsushi Baba (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control apparatus is mounted in a subject vehicle provided with a running planning unit configured to calculate one or more candidate routes on which the subject vehicle is to travel. The vehicle control apparatus predicts an action of a prediction target moving body that includes the subject vehicle and at least one moving body present in a vicinity of the subject vehicle."

The pa...