ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,237, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO LTD. (Ibaraki, Japan).
"Vehicle control device" was invented by Naoyuki Tashiro (Tokyo), Masashi Seimiya (Hitachinaka, Japan), Satoshi Matsuda (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Masato Imai (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device, which reduces intervention in automatic parking by a driver, includes a processor and a memory, that control the vehicle to a target parking position. The vehicle control device includes an obstacle detection unit detecting a position of an obstacle around the vehicle, a travelable region setting unit that determines a region where the vehi...