ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,504, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Vehicle control device" was invented by Yuusuke Izumi (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device is provided for activating a safety device to inhibit occurrence of a collision with a moving object around an own vehicle, when the own vehicle transitions from traveling straight in a lane in which the vehicle is traveling to making a turn. An area setting unit is configured to, based on at least one of an own vehicle speed and a moving object speed, set a potential collision area, provided that the moving object continues to move in its movi...