ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,520, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and ADVICS Co. LTD. (Kariya, Japan).

"Vehicle control device" was invented by Yuta Ohashi (Toyota, Japan), Mitsutaka Tanimoto (Okazaki, Japan), Hidehisa Kato (Sunto-gun, Japan) and Michihiro Otsubo (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device includes a processor. The processor calculates an instruction value of an operation request for controlling an operation of an actuator mounted on a vehicle based on a motion request from an application. The processor executes feedback control on the instruction value using a deviation between the mot...