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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,771, issued on March 31, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDSOHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle control device, storage medium for storing computer program for vehicle control, and method for controlling vehicle" was invented by Sota Sugimoto (Tokyo-to, Japan) and Jumpei Kiriki (Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device has a processor that is configured to determine whether or not a non-controllable point where automatic control of vehicle travel is not allowed exists in a predetermined range from a current location of a vehicle on a path ahead of the vehicle, when it has been determined that there is a problem...