ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,990, issued on March 24, was assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO LTD. (Hitachinaka, Japan).
"Vehicle control device" was invented by Kenta Morishima (Tokyo) and Tetsuya Yamada (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present invention is to obtain a vehicle control device capable of guiding a host vehicle to a narrow area by low-speed automatic driving by quick and precise positioning of the host vehicle, and guiding the host vehicle to a stop position of which details are unknown by designating each stop frame by beacons. A vehicle control device 101 according to the present invention includes a wireless reception unit 121 tha...