ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,971, issued on May 27, was assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO LTD. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Vehicle control system, and vehicle control method" was invented by Trongmun Jiralerspong (Tokyo), Ryoh Inaba (Tokyo) and Hidehiro Toyoda (Hitachinaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a vehicle control system that is capable of planning a trajectory that can ensure more visibility and enables safe traveling when an invisible range of a sensor exists.A vehicle control system that plans a target trajectory of a vehicle based on recognition information from an external environment sensor, the vehicle control system including a recognizing u...