ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,009, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to ADVICS Co. LTD. (Kariya, Japan).
"Vehicle stop determination device" was invented by Yusaku Yamamoto (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle stop determination device includes: a vehicle wheel speed sensor that outputs a signal according to a rotational speed of vehicle wheels; an acquisition unit that acquires a wheel speed at a predetermined reference time that a vehicle decelerates, based on an output signal of the vehicle wheel speed sensor; a derivation unit that derives a stopping position where the vehicle stops, based on the wheel speed acquired by the acquisition unit; ...