US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 21 for "Vehicle control device, vehicle control method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,385, issued on July 21, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle control device, vehicle control method, and storage medium" was invented by Yuta Hiraiwa (Miyoshi, Japan) and Naoki Iguchi (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The vehicle control device perceives an object when an object located in front of the host vehicle satisfies a predetermined perception condition, and performs either or both of the following operations: giving a warning to notify an occupant of the host vehicle of a risk of collision with the perceived object, and performing vehicle control for controlling a traveling state of the h...