US Patent Issued to Nissan Motor on May 27 for "Vehicle control method and vehicle control device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,937, issued on May 27, was assigned to Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Vehicle control method and vehicle control device" was invented by Kazuyuki Uwabo (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yasuhisa Taira (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller: determines whether a current position of an own vehicle is within a high-definition map-available region in which high-definition map information is available; when the current position is within the map-available region, performs acceleration/deceleration of the own vehicle, based on specified speed information acquired by recognizing a speed sign in a captured image or acqui...