US Patent Issued to Nissan Motor, Renault on Feb. 4 for "Riding-together vehicle control device and system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,215,983, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan) and Renault SAS (Boulogne-Billancourt, France).

"Riding-together vehicle control device and system" was invented by Eijo Iwasaki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises a riding cancel switch and a controller. In a case where a first user in the vehicle permitted a riding-together with a second user, after the vehicle stopped at a riding location where the second user will ride on the vehicle, then, when the riding cancel switch is operated before a door of the ve...