US Patent Issued to PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS on June 2 for "Vehicle control method, automatic door control method, vehicle control device, and automatic door control device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,378, issued on June 2, was assigned to PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Vehicle control method, automatic door control method, vehicle control device, and automatic door control device" was invented by Tsuyoshi Nishio (Chiba, Japan), Yohei Tanaka (Kanagawa, Japan), Yuki Nishida (Kanagawa, Japan) and Toshihiro Miyamichi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a vehicle body, a wheel group connected to the vehicle body, a door disposed on the vehicle body and opened by an actuator in a first direction, and a planar light shielding member disposed on the door, having a variable light tr...