US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Feb. 24 for "Vehicle control device including object detection unit for collision avoidance, vehicle control method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,092, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Vehicle control device including object detection unit for collision avoidance, vehicle control method, and program" was invented by Xi Chen (Nagoya, Japan), Tsunekazu Yasoshima (Nagoya, Japan) and Kazuya Okamoto (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To suppress unnecessary operation of PCS control, provided is a vehicle control device comprising a detection unit for detecting an object located in diagonally forward of an own vehicle as a diagonally forward object; and an ECU including at least one processor. The ECU programmed to execute a colli...