ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,280, issued on June 3, was assigned to Panasonic Automotive Systems Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Vehicle control device, system, and vehicle control method" was invented by Yuya Ishibashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Teppei Shibata (Kanagawa, Japan) and Toru Ichikawa (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device is disclosed. The vehicle control device controls a vehicle on the basis of one or more detection times each representing a distance measured by a distance measuring device mounted on the vehicle. The distance measuring device measures a distance to an object around the vehicle by transmitting and receiving sound waves....