ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,182, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to MEIDENSHA Corp. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle speed control device and driver model processing device" was invented by Takashi Yamaguchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This vehicle speed control device includes: a driving force command generation unit that generates a driving force command FcmD on the basis of the actual vehicle speed V of the vehicle and a vehicle speed command Vcmd; an accelerator control unit that generates an opening degree command ThetaAC for the accelerator pedal on the basis of the driving force command Fcmd; a brake control unit that generates an opening degree command Theta...