US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Electric on Feb. 25 for "Vehicle control device and vehicle control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,235,640, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle control device and vehicle control method" was invented by Yasuaki Takimoto (Tokyo), Takuya Kono (Tokyo) and Ryo Mizobe (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A resource comparison unit compares a resource list to be used by a control center to remotely operate a remotely driven vehicle with a resource list to be used by a vehicle control unit to control the remotely driven vehicle in accordance with the remote operation from the control center. An alternative resource storage unit stores information on an alternative resource for a resource of t...