US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA, DENSO on Nov. 3 for "Erroneous accelerator operation determination device and control device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,193, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan).

"Erroneous accelerator operation determination device and control device" was invented by Ryo Ishii (Toyota, Japan), Masashi Oishi (Owariasahi, Japan), Takuya Kaminade (Okazaki, Japan), Naoya Matsunaga (Nagoya, Japan) and Masaki Ikai (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device equipped with a determination device which determines that accelerator operation by a driver is erroneous when an accelerator operation state determination condition and a driving state determination condition are satisfied,...