US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 21 for "Vehicle control device, vehicle, vehicle control method and recording medium on which a program is recorded" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,742, issued on July 21, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle control device, vehicle, vehicle control method and recording medium on which a program is recorded" was invented by Jumpei Fuke (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device includes: a receiving section receiving, from a user, setting processing for setting a time period in which control of a vehicle by using an information processing device is suppressed; a detecting section detecting a predetermined user operation for control of the vehicle; and a control permitting section that, in a case in which the predetermined user...