US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA, J-QUAD DYNAMICS, ADVICS on May 19 for "Vehicle control device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,141, issued on May 19, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan), J-QUAD DYNAMICS INC. (Tokyo) and ADVICS Co. LTD. (Kariya, Japan).

"Vehicle control device" was invented by Kazuki Ninomiya (Toyota, Japan), Masanobu Horio (Tokyo) and Atsushi Kuchinomachi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device to be applied to a vehicle including parking brakes provided in association with right and left wheels and configured to be driven to bring the wheels into a non-rotatable state includes a processor. The processor is configured to acquire abnormality occurrence information on each of the right and left parking bra...