ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,166, issued on July 8, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vehicle control device" was invented by Yuusuke Izumi (Kariya, Japan) and Arifumi Matsumoto (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device activates a safety device for suppressing a collision between a host vehicle and an oncoming vehicle that is traveling straight along an oncoming traffic lane, when the host vehicle changes from traveling straight along its own traffic lane to making a right or left turn to cross the oncoming traffic lane. The vehicle control device includes a judgement unit and a con...