US Patent Issued to DENSO on Nov. 18 for "Vehicle notification for decrease in the residual fuel/energy" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,969, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Vehicle notification for decrease in the residual fuel/energy" was invented by Takuya Kume (Kariya, Japan) and Kazuki Izumi (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device is for a vehicle. The vehicle has a user-involvement mode and an automated driving mode as driving modes. The user-involvement mode is a driving mode in which a user sitting in a driver's seat is required to monitor a front of the vehicle. The automated driving mode being a driving mode in which the user is not required to monitor the front of the vehicle. A processor acqui...