ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,406, issued on May 5, was assigned to J-QuAD DYNAMICS Inc. (Tokyo).

"Travel control device, travel control method, and storage medium storing travel control program" was invented by Yuuki Ozawa (Tokyo) and Riku Koyama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A travel control device is configured to execute: a coasting travel process; a cruise travel process, a gradient information acquisition process acquiring, as gradient information, information indicating a gradient of a road surface on which a vehicle is traveling; a deviation variable acquisition process acquiring a deviation variable for determining an acceleration generated in the ...