US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 14 for "Vehicle control device, storage medium storing computer program for vehicle control, and method for controlling vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,364, issued on July 14, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle control device, storage medium storing computer program for vehicle control, and method for controlling vehicle" was invented by Satoru Akahane (Yokohama, Japan), Terumoto Komori (Sunto-gun, Japan) and Shimpei Kokubo (Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device has a processor configured to determine whether a host vehicle is located in a blind spot zone of another vehicle, to decide, when the host vehicle is located in a blind spot zone, to change speed of the host vehicle to initiate movement control to cause movement o...