US Patent Issued to Hitachi Astemo on March 18 for "Vehicle control device, vehicle control method, and vehicle control system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,111, issued on March 18, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Vehicle control device, vehicle control method, and vehicle control system" was invented by Daisuke Noma (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Kentaro Ueno (Hitachinaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The vehicle control device of the present invention acquires characteristics of a road condition in front of a traveling vehicle based on external information; acquires vehicle behavior control variables for controlling the behavior of the vehicle based on estimated state variables of the vehicle that are obtained based on the characteristics, and control vari...