ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,109, issued on May 6, was assigned to MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO K.K. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle control device" was invented by Yuki Maeda (Tokyo) and Ryo Shimizu (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device includes a drive source mounted on a vehicle, a differential device configured to distribute a driving force generated by the drive source to a right drive wheel and a left drive wheel, a speed sensor configured to detect a rotation speed of the drive source, a pair of wheel speed sensors configured to detect rotation speeds of the right drive wheel and the left drive wheel, and a control device configured to set an index...