US Patent Issued to DENSO on Nov. 11 for "Vehicle control apparatus for negotiating grade crossings" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,441, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Vehicle control apparatus for negotiating grade crossings" was invented by Ryotaro Araki (Kariya, Japan), Kenji Kato (Kariya, Japan), Yohei Masui (Kariya, Japan) and Yuta Komoguchi (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control apparatus is mounted in a vehicle and controls the vehicle. The vehicle control apparatus detects an obstacle that is present inside a grade crossing that intersects a traveling course of the vehicle, using a detection result of a sensor that is mounted in the vehicle. The vehicle control apparatus identifies a position and ...