US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Electric on March 24 for "Vehicle control device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,450, issued on March 24, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle control device" was invented by Kota Adachi (Tokyo), Takayuki Tanaka (Tokyo), Mizuki Higuchi (Tokyo) and Shogo Okamoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device includes: an in-vehicle sensor information acquisition unit; a roadside sensor information acquisition unit; a vehicle position information acquisition unit; a map information acquisition unit; an obstacle information generation unit that generates obstacle information including information of at least one of a position, a size and a speed of the obstacle and information...