US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 28 for "Vehicle control device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,854, issued on July 28, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle control device" was invented by Takayoshi Nohara (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When it is determined that there is a possibility that an object collides with the vehicle from behind while the vehicle is stopped, collision-corresponding braking control is performed to apply a braking force necessary for suppressing the forward movement of the vehicle due to the collision of the object to the vehicle. During the collision response braking control, it is determined whether or not a backward acceleration caused in the vehicle by the coll...