ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,404, issued on June 10, was assigned to ADVICS Co. LTD. (Kariya, Japan).
"Braking control device" was invented by Masaki Maruyama (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The braking control device includes a determination unit configured to determine whether a vehicle is in a stopped state; a setting unit configured to set a vehicle stop maintenance braking force necessary for maintaining the stopped state of the vehicle; and a control unit configured to execute, when the determination unit determines that the vehicle is in the stopped state and an actual braking force applied in the stopped state of the vehicle is greater than...