US Patent Issued to DENSO TEN on May 19 for "Vehicle control system and method of performing autonomous retreat travel operation" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,181, issued on May 19, was assigned to DENSO TEN Ltd. (Kobe, Japan).

"Vehicle control system and method of performing autonomous retreat travel operation" was invented by Shunsuke Kobayashi (Kobe, Japan) and Takeshi Matsumoto (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device includes: a controller mounted on a vehicle having an autonomous driving function and configured to execute fail-safe control by a backup power supply when a main power supply fails. The controller is configured to: in the fail-safe control, when a remaining charge level of the backup power supply decreases to or below a first threshold set in advance, ...