US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on May 26 for "Vehicle control device and vehicle control method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,003, issued on May 26, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Vehicle control device and vehicle control method" was invented by Kazuki Fukazawa (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To optimize the execution or the suppression of the alert, provided is a control device comprising a first notification unit notify a driver of a vehicle of the approaching moving object, when a moving object is detected; a second notification unit notify the driver of the approach to a stationary object, when the stationary object is detected; and a notification suppress unit suppresses, when a specific condition is satisfied wh...