ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,155, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to JTEKT Corp. (Kariya, Japan), TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Vehicle control device" was invented by Kazuma Hasegawa (Anjo, Japan), Yuji Fujita (Okazaki, Japan), Yuuta Kajisawa (Okazaki, Japan), Yugo Nagashima (Anjo, Japan), Takashi Koudai (Okazaki, Japan), Masaharu Yamashita (Toyota, Japan), Atsushi Satou (Miyoshi, Japan), Yosuke Yamashita (Nagoya, Japan), Kazuaki Iida (Toyota, Japan), Hiroyuki Katayama (Toyota, Japan), Shintaro Takayama (Toyota, Japan), Toyohiro Hayashi (Kariya, Japan), Hiroki Tomizawa (Kariya, Japan) and Nobuyori Nakajima (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U....