US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 31 for "Vehicle control device, storage medium storing computer program for vehicle control, and method for controlling vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,746, issued on March 31, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle control device, storage medium storing computer program for vehicle control, and method for controlling vehicle" was invented by Satoru Akahane (Yokohama, Japan), Terumoto Komori (Sunto-gun, Japan) and Shimpei Kokubo (Sumida-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device has a processor configured to determine whether a host vehicle is located in a blind spot zone of another vehicle, to decide to change speed of the host vehicle in a predetermined direction to initiate movement control to cause movement of the host vehicle outsi...