US Patent Issued to Nissan Motor on July 1 for "Method and device for controlling vehicle acceleration on a curved road using curve information" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,248, issued on July 1, was assigned to Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Method and device for controlling vehicle acceleration on a curved road using curve information" was invented by Hiroyuki Ashizawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Masahiro Kobayashi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When accelerating a vehicle toward a set speed after the vehicle travels on a curved road at a vehicle speed equal to or lower than a speed limit based on the curved road, a driving support method and a driving support device accelerate the vehicle by a first acceleration in a case of acquiring a curve information related to the curved roa...