US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 3 for "Control device for vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,207, issued on March 3, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Control device for vehicle" was invented by Masakazu Aoki (Nagoya, Japan), Satoshi Takamoto (Miyoshi, Japan) and Yohsuke Hashimoto (Nagakute, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device includes a memory device configured to store a first function, and a processor. The first function is specified in advance based on a driving dataset for a plurality of drivers. The processor is configured to: calculate, in accordance with the first function, a vehicle-to-vehicle preference value of a driver according to vehicle-to-vehicle information and subject v...