US Patent Issued to Hitachi Astemo on Aug. 12 for "Vehicle control device and vehicle control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,355, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Vehicle control device and vehicle control method" was invented by Yoichi Iihoshi (Tokyo), Takashi Okada (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Yuuki Okuda (Hitachinaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a vehicle control device capable of improving fuel consumption while reducing deterioration of emission by appropriately controlling a powertrain system of a vehicle. A vehicle control device includes: a prediction unit configured to predict speeds or accelerations of a vehicle based on a plurality of prediction models; a fuel consu...