US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 8 for "Vehicle control device and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,852, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle control device and storage medium" was invented by Hikaru Akimoto (Mishima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control unit is provided for executing cruise control for causing a vehicle to travel while maintaining a set speed, and the control unit is a vehicle control device that determines whether or not there is a traffic factor affecting the cruise control on the basis of a detection value for detecting the surroundings of the vehicle in the cruise control for maintaining the set speed, and adjusts first acceleration set in the cruise contro...