US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Dec. 2 for "Vehicle control device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,754, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle control device" was invented by Shin Kikuchi (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device includes a traveling environment detection unit and an ECU as a controller. The ECU acquires traveling environment information indicating a traveling environment detected by the traveling environment detection unit. The ECU determines whether a vehicle is in an off-road traveling state where the vehicle travels on a bad road, based on the traveling environment information. When the vehicle is in the off-road traveling state, the ECU dete...