ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,643, issued on May 12, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Brake control device and brake control method" was invented by Ryochi Watanabe (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A brake control device includes a deciding unit for deciding a requested deceleration that is requested by the driver, based on the brake pedal operation amount that is acquired, and a braking processing unit for deciding a braking amount of braking to be executed by a brake device, based on the requested deceleration that is decided, and deciding to execute reducing control in which a deceleration is reduced as compared to the requeste...