US Patent Issued to HITACHI ASTEMO on Oct. 20 for "Vehicle control device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,768,929, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO LTD. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Vehicle control device" was invented by Yuta Tsurumoto (Tokyo), Keisuke Takeuchi (Tokyo) and Seiya Ishii (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device is provided which has enhanced robustness against a shielding object, further, which does not measure a received radio wave from a radio transmitter and which can continue, for example, automatic driving control by comparing two types of vehicle positions calculated using the radio transmitter installed outside a vehicle and a sensor mounted on the vehicle and detecting an error in order...