US Patent Issued to Hitachi Astemo on May 27 for "Vehicle control device, vehicle control method, and vehicle control system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,946, issued on May 27, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device, a vehicle control method, and a vehicle control system according to the present invention estimate, in response to a deceleration command to a vehicle, the first deceleration generated by a frictional braking force based on characteristics of deceleration with respect to a force acting on a friction pad ...