US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Electric on March 31 for "Vehicle-traveling control system and vehicle-traveling control method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,738, issued on March 31, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle-traveling control system and vehicle-traveling control method" was invented by Kazuhiro Nishiwaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a vehicle-traveling control system that can appropriately avoid a collision. A vehicle-traveling control system acquires positional and speed information on an own vehicle, positional and speed information on neighboring vehicles, determines a subject vehicle that travels toward the own vehicle and may collide with the own vehicle, sets a collision assumption position where the own vehicle may coll...