US Patent Issued to Nissan Motor, Renault on Oct. 28 for "Vehicle control device, vehicle control method, vehicle control program, and vehicle control system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,289, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan) and Renault S.A.S. (Boulogne-Billancourt, France).

"Vehicle control device, vehicle control method, vehicle control program, and vehicle control system" was invented by Hideaki Setoguchi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device for controlling a vehicle is configured to stop in response to a request from a prospective passenger and allow the prospective passenger to board. The vehicle control device includes: a stop candidate location extraction unit configured to extract a candidate location for a stop location where the v...