US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA, DENSO on Sept. 23 for "Vehicle controller, vehicle control method, and vehicle control computer program for vehicle control" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,841, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Vehicle controller, vehicle control method, and vehicle control computer program for vehicle control" was invented by Ryusuke Kuroda (Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle controller includes a processor configured to detect another vehicle traveling behind a host vehicle, based on a sensor signal obtained by a sensor for sensing surroundings of the host vehicle, determine whether the detected other vehicle satisfies an obstructing condition for obstructing view behind the host vehicle, and control the ho...