ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,237, issued on June 30, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle control device, vehicle control method, and storage medium storing a vehicle control program" was invented by Yoshihiro Takahashi (Susono, Japan), Jungang Guan (Susono, Japan) and Yuki Takahashi (Susono, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device includes a detection unit that detects a motion of a driver of a vehicle, a behavior of the vehicle, and biological information of the driver, an abnormal sign determination unit that determines whether there is an abnormal sign on the driver based on the motion of the driver, the behavior of the vehicl...