US Patent Issued to Hitachi Astemo on July 28 for "Vehicle control device, vehicle control method, and vehicle control system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,876, issued on July 28, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Vehicle control device, vehicle control method, and vehicle control system" was invented by Kentaro Ueno (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Daisuke Noma (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 acquire a first driving area in front of a vehicle, the first driving area being included in a first target command specified by a recognition and determination unit that performs recognition and determination, output a first control command for dr...