ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,908, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle control apparatus" was invented by Mizuho Wakabayashi (Tokyo), Yuko Omagari (Tokyo) and Yusuke Matsuo (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a vehicle control apparatus which performs deceleration stepwisely according to the traveling state of the ego vehicle, and can reduce the uncomfortable feeling to the occupant, and the discomfort to the following vehicle. A vehicle control apparatus sets a deceleration point and a deceleration point speed on a target travel route, and sets a preliminary deceleration completion point between a present pos...