ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,305, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).
"Vehicle control device" was invented by Ryota Mita (Hitachinaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device mounted on a vehicle includes one or more processors to detect an object around the vehicle based on external environment information and generate three-dimensional object information and information on a plurality of split regions, and set a damage degree to each of the plurality of split regions depending on an estimated magnitude of damage at an estimated time of collision of the vehicle. The one or more processors record in...