US Patent Issued to Hitachi Astemo on May 19 for "Vehicle control device and vehicle control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,147, issued on May 19, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Vehicle control device and vehicle control method" was invented by Kenta Maeda (Tokyo), Takahiro Ito (Tokyo), Kentarou Ueno (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Shuji Ohshita (Hitachinaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a vehicle control device and a vehicle control method that take into consideration individual differences and the effect of vehicle motion, not only in the horizontal direction but also in the front-rear direction, on the head movement of a passenger, and further reduce the head movement of the passenger through vehicle motion that c...