US Patent Issued to Panasonic Automotive Systems on Dec. 2 for "Vehicle control device, vehicle control method, and recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,857, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Panasonic Automotive Systems Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Vehicle control device, vehicle control method, and recording medium" was invented by Yuya Ishibashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Teppei Shibata (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yusuke Nakamura (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device controls a vehicle on the basis of a detection time representing a distance measured by a range finder device. The range finder device is installed in the vehicle to measure a distance to an object around the vehicle by transmitting and receiving sound waves. The vehicle control device includes a p...