US Patent Issued to Nissan Motor on April 14 for "Vehicle control method and vehicle control device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,356, issued on April 14, was assigned to Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Vehicle control method and vehicle control device" was invented by Daniel Marcell Gongora Flores (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yuji Takada (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control method for causing an own vehicle to stop in a way that an interval between the own vehicle and a preceding vehicle coincides with a predetermined target distance includes: determining whether or not there is a crossing within a predetermined distance from the own vehicle ahead of the own vehicle and a traveling road on which the own vehicle travels includes...