US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on June 16 for "Vehicle control device and vehicle control method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,729, issued on June 16, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle control device and vehicle control method" was invented by Ryoichi Akanuma (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The vehicle control device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires a captured image of the in-vehicle camera or position information of the vehicle and acquires a speed of the vehicle; a specification unit that specifies the presence of the car washing machine in the vicinity of the vehicle based on the captured image or the position information of the vehicle; and a determination unit that, when the speed of the vehicle trave...