US Patent Issued to ADVICS, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Jan. 28 for "Vehicle controller and vehicle control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,208,796, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to ADVICS Co. LTD. (Kariya, Japan) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle controller and vehicle control method" was invented by Shogi Fukukawa (Tokyo), Masayuki Asano (Tokyo), Kazuki Miyake (Okazaki, Japan) and Akitsugu Sakai (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle controller sets an upper limit request value related to an upper limit of a longitudinal acceleration of a vehicle, a lower limit request value related to a lower limit of the longitudinal acceleration, and an acceleration request value related to the longitudinal acceleration that corresponds to an amount of...