US Patent Issued to Hitachi Astemo on Aug. 4 for "Vehicle control device, vehicle control method, and vehicle control system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,969, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Vehicle control device, vehicle control method, and vehicle control system" was invented by Fumito Okonogi (Hitachinaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device, a vehicle control method, and a vehicle control system according to the present invention obtain an inter-vehicle time based on a relative distance between a first vehicle traveling, in front of an own vehicle, in a second lane adjacent to a first lane in which the own vehicle travels and a second vehicle traveling in the second lane in front of the first vehicle and based ...