ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,438, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to DENSO TEN Ltd. (Kobe, Japan).
"Vehicle control method and vehicle control device" was invented by Kazuya Koyama (Kobe, Japan), Tomoya Takagi (Kobe, Japan), Haruo Harada (Kobe, Japan), Yasuomi Kimura (Kobe, Japan) and Miki Hitotsuya (Kobe, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control method according to an embodiment is a vehicle control method to be executed by a controller for controlling a vehicle that travels in an area, wherein the controller is configured to: in a case where detecting occurrence of a disaster and determining that nobody is riding on the vehicle, cause the vehicle...