US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 1 for "Vehicle deceleration assist control device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,637, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle deceleration assist control device" was invented by Kumiko Kondo (Numazu, Japan), Shogo Ito (Sunto-gun, Japan) and Shinya Kawamata (Mishima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle deceleration assist control device has a control unit for performing deceleration assist control in an accelerator operation amount mode for decelerating the vehicle according to the accelerator operation amount when the deceleration target is detected in a situation where the accelerator operation amount exceeds the reference value and the deceleration target is d...