US Patent Issued to NISSAN NORTH AMERICA, VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY on July 21 for "Vehicle control device and vehicle control method" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,329, issued on July 21, was assigned to NISSAN NORTH AMERICA INC. (Franklin, Tenn.) and VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY (Nashville, Tenn.).

"Vehicle control device and vehicle control method" was invented by Chikao Tsuchiya (Cupertino, Calif.) and Kanako Sakai (Inagi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device includes a computer memory, an environmental sensor and a processor. The computer memory is configured to store vehicle trajectories in association with road segments of a map. The environmental sensor is configured to detect traveling environment of a host vehicle. The processor is configured to determine one of the v...