US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on April 1 for "Vehicle control apparatus, vehicle, acceleration-and-deceleration control method, and vehicle control program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,263,845, issued on April 1, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle control apparatus, vehicle, acceleration-and-deceleration control method, and vehicle control program" was invented by Yuma Ito (Obu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control apparatus performs an acceleration suppressing control to suppress an acceleration of a vehicle, when a distracted state detected based on a driver's seat image continues for a predetermined first time. The distracted state is a state in which an attentiveness for driving of the driver is impaired. The vehicle control apparatus performs a deceleration control to d...