ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,066, issued on July 7, was assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO LTD. (Hitachinaka, Japan).
"Vehicle control device" was invented by Daniel Gabriel (Tokyo), Yuki Horita (Tokyo), Shigenori Hayase (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Tatsuhiko Monji (Hitachinaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the vehicle control device mounted on the vehicle, the information acquisition unit 11 acquires a vehicle information data group representing vehicle information regarding the behavior of the vehicle 2, a road environment data group 32 representing road environment information regarding the environment of the road on which the vehicle 2 is traveling, and a sens...