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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,023, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Vehicle control apparatus, vehicle control method, and vehicle control system" was invented by Hiroki Sugawara (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Kentaro Ueno (Hitachinaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control apparatus, a vehicle control method, and a vehicle control system according to the present invention each acquire information related to a positional difference in a transverse direction between a target trajectory of a vehicle and an actual trajectory of the vehicle, estimate an amount of disturbance corresponding to the positional diffe...