ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,840, issued on March 17, was assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO LTD. (Hitachinaka, Japan).
"Vehicle control device" was invented by Daiki Naito (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device can perform control for causing a vehicle to travel along a target trajectory at a target vehicle speed. The vehicle control device can include at least one processor configured to: determine whether or not the vehicle is in a deviated state in which the vehicle deviates from the target trajectory, calculate, when the vehicle is determined to be in the deviated state, a suppression amount by which the target vehicle speed is decreased ba...