US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Jan. 20 for "Vehicle control device and vehicle control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,495, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle control device and vehicle control method" was invented by Koichi Fujita (Toyota, Japan), Jun Tohyama (Nisshin, Japan), Daisuke Akaho (Nagoya, Japan), Yuta Maniwa (Susono, Japan), Natsumi Izawa (Kariya, Japan), Shunichiroh Sawai (Tokyo-to, Japan), Masahiko Nakamura (Okazaki, Japan) and Kenichiro Aoki (Machida, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device includes at least one processor, the processor being configured to: in a vehicle configured to enable autonomous travel control that permits a driver to behave in a manner in which ...