ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,082, issued on May 26, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and AISIN Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Vehicle control device, storage medium storing computer program for vehicle control, and method for controlling vehicle" was invented by Udara Eshan Manawadu (Edogawa-ku, Japan), Takuhiro Omi (Anjo, Japan), Hiroshi Morimoto (Ota-ku, Japan) and Kenta Yamada (Shinagawa-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device for a vehicle in which driving is automatically controlled in a predetermined driving mode established by automatic control parameters. The vehicle control device has a processor configured to acquir...