US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA, DENSO on Jan. 13 for "Vehicle control apparatus and vehicle control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,233, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and DENSO Corp..

"Vehicle control apparatus and vehicle control method" was invented by Naoya Matsunaga (Nagoya, Japan), Takuya Kaminade (Okazaki, Japan), Masaki Ikai (Toyota, Japan), Ryo Ishii (Toyota, Japan) and Masashi Oishi (Owariasahi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ECU of a vehicle control apparatus determines that an erroneous operation to an accelerator pedal has been performed, when both a prerequisite condition and an additional condition are satisfied. The prerequisite condition: an operation amount of the accelerator pedal becomes greater...