US Patent Issued to Nissan Motor on Sept. 2 for "Vehicle control device and vehicle control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,747, issued on Sept. 2, 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 simultaneously 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; determine whether the user and the package are loaded in the vehicle; and upon determining that the user and the package ar...