ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,795, issued on April 22, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Vehicle control device" was invented by Takeyuki Tominaga (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present invention is to provide a vehicle control device configured, regardless of the number of travel lanes of a road, to generate a travel route based on a road width of the road or the like, so as to improve a continuous automatic driving system. The present invention provides a vehicle control device configured to perform vehicle control of a self vehicle based on information of a position of the self vehicle, information of a map, and ...