US Patent Issued to Hitachi Astemo on Feb. 24 for "Vehicle control device and obstacle avoidance control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,098, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Vehicle control device and obstacle avoidance control method" was invented by Chikara Nishiura (Tokyo) and Satoshi Kashiwamura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device includes a vehicle position calculating unit, an obstacle determining unit, a collision possibility determining unit, an avoidance means selecting unit, an avoidance route calculating unit, and a steering control value calculating unit that calculates a steering control value and that outputs the steering control value to a steering actuator control unit. The avoida...