ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,765, issued on June 16, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Steering control device for vehicle" was invented by Kazuhiro Ozawa (Toyota, Japan), Yosuke Yamashita (Nagoya, Japan) and Shintaro Takayama (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The vehicle fixing control unit fixes the vehicle during the charging of the backup power supply, and the vehicle fixing by the vehicle fixing device is not released regardless of the vehicle fixing release request by the operation of the vehicle fixing device operation switch until the remaining charge amount of the backup power supply reaches the fail-safe executable remai...