ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,351, issued on April 14, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vehicle control device for executing emergency stopping control" was invented by Masakatsu Onitsuka (Nisshin, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device has a control unit provided which executes driving support control including emergency stopping control for decelerating and stopping a vehicle when an abnormality occurs in a driver based on a first detection value indicating a state in a vehicle, and the control unit is configured to determine that a risk of contact between the vehicle and an object is equal to or higher than a predet...