ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,758, issued on April 22, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vehicle control device" was invented by Tatsushi Fujii (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The vehicle control device: controls the drive device and the braking device such that an actual acceleration representing an actual acceleration of the vehicle coincides with a target acceleration for driving the vehicle so that the vehicle stops at a preset target stop position; acquires the target acceleration every time a predetermined time elapses, and sets the target acceleration to a value such that the magnitude of the change amount does not exceed t...