US Patent Issued to Hitachi Astemo on May 26 for "Vehicle control apparatus, vehicle control method, and vehicle following running system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,074, issued on May 26, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Vehicle control apparatus, vehicle control method, and vehicle following running system" was invented by Tatsuya Iba (Hitachinaka, Japan), Kentaro Ueno (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Hiroshi Ito (Hitachinaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one aspect of the present invention, a vehicle control apparatus mounted on a lead vehicle sets a smaller value of a first acceleration limit value determined based on specifications regarding running of a first following vehicle and a basic acceleration limit value determined based on specifications regar...