ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,078, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vehicle control device" was invented by Youhei Masui (Kariya, Japan) and Naoki Kusumoto (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device is provided for a vehicle equipped with a high-accuracy sensor and a low-accuracy sensor to detect a preceding vehicle. The low-accuracy sensor is able to detect a distance to a preceding vehicle larger than a maximum distance to a preceding vehicle detectable by the high-accuracy sensor, and having low ranging accuracy. A control unit is configured to perform following...