US Patent Issued to NISSAN MOTOR on June 24 for "Vehicle control device and vehicle control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,648, issued on June 24, was assigned to NISSAN MOTOR Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Vehicle control device and vehicle control method" was invented by Masayasu Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan), Keiko Shishido (Kanagawa, Japan) and Tomoki Hirabayashi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device is used for a vehicle that transports a user and a package. The vehicle control device includes a controller configured to: acquire an attribute of the user and an attribute of the package; partition a space in the vehicle into spaces prior to loading of at least one of the user and the package into the vehicle; and perform ai...