ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,938, issued on May 27, was assigned to ISUZU MOTORS Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle control device" was invented by Shinichiro Fukazawa (Fujisawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device incudes a deceleration detection unit that detects a deceleration of a vehicle, a stop schedule specifying unit that specifies that the vehicle is scheduled to stop, a brake control unit that starts reducing a brake pressure when a vehicle speed of the vehicle becomes equal to or less than a threshold value, and a threshold value determination unit that determines the threshold value such that the threshold value increases as the deceler...