ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,856, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO LTD..
"Vehicle control device" was invented by Takayuki Saito (Tokyo), Masashi Seimiya (Tokyo), Taku Takahama (Tokyo), Keisuke Takeuchi (Tokyo), Yuta Tsurumoto (Tokyo) and Seiya Ishii (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 capable of improving ride comfort of a driver. A lane change detection unit 205 of a vehicle control device 200 determines a possibility of cut-in of an adjacent vehicle immediately in front of an own vehicle on the basis of an adjacent vehicle relationship value (for example, a relative spe...