US Patent Issued to Hitachi Astemo on Jan. 27 for "Vehicle drive control device, vehicle control system, and vehicle control method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,909, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Vehicle drive control device, vehicle control system, and vehicle control method" was invented by Keiichiro Nagatsuka (Hitachinaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a vehicle drive control device capable of appropriately determining a signal state of a traffic signal and, in a case where there is a collision possibility with another object, suitably determining a warning to an own vehicle driver and/or vehicle control of the own vehicle in consideration of a signal information determination result. A vehicle drive control device 100 inc...