US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 24 for "Vehicle controller, method, and computer program for vehicle control" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,445, issued on March 24, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle controller, method, and computer program for vehicle control" was invented by Ryusuke Kuroda (Edogawa-ku, Japan), Kenichiro Aoki (Machida, Japan) and Tadashi Okubo (Machida, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle controller includes a processor configured to sense trouble with a first sensor among sensors that are capable of detecting objects around a host vehicle and whose sensing areas at least partially overlap, detect another vehicle traveling in an area around the host vehicle, based on sensor signals from the respective sensors, and ...