US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA, DENSO on Aug. 19 for "Vehicle control device, storage medium storing computer program for vehicle control, and method for controlling vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,285, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Vehicle control device, storage medium storing computer program for vehicle control, and method for controlling vehicle" was invented by Kunio Goto (Tokyo-to, Japan), Ryusuke Kuroda (Tokyo-to, Japan) and Takuya Fujiki (Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device has a processor configured to calculate an average speed of a vehicle traveling in a traffic lane and another vehicle in a predetermined range from the vehicle, for each of multiple traffic lanes of a traveling road on which the vehicle is ...