US Patent Issued to HITACHI ASTEMO on Aug. 5 for "Vehicle control device and vehicle control system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,842, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO LTD. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Vehicle control device and vehicle control system" was invented by Yusuke Noma (Hitachinaka, Japan), Shunsuke Katoh (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Hidehiro Toyoda (Hitachinaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Realized is a vehicle control device capable of performing automatic driving control that does not reduce turning accuracy of a host vehicle even when an object in a blind spot is different from an assumption and a vehicle speed decreases due to a rapid deceleration. A vehicle control device 10 includes a blind spot object estimation unit 24 that det...