ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,117, issued on June 23, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Ibaraki, Japan).
"Vehicle control device" was invented by Koichi Uemura (Tokyo) and Taku Takahama (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device that achieves preferred steering control characteristics of a driver while keeping lane tracing during lane keeping control. Included are: a lane shape detection unit that detects a lane shape around a vehicle; a steering torque detection unit that detects a steering torque of a driver who drives the vehicle; a lane keeping control unit that calculates a steering command for keeping within a lane based on the detect...