US Patent Issued to Hitachi Astemo on Oct. 27 for "Vehicle control device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,988, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Ibaraki, Japan).

"Vehicle control device" was invented by Chikara Nishiura (Tokyo) and Satoshi Kashiwamura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a vehicle control device capable of preventing unnecessary operations in a driving assistance function for avoiding a collision between an own vehicle and a pedestrian at an intersection, for example. There is provided an operation-suppression determination unit adapted to determine whether to change the result of collision determination (whether to suppress an unnecessary operation), based on the change (temporal chang...