ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,137, issued on April 29, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle controller includes a processor configured to determine whether there is fogging on a window of a vehicle or a sign of fogging thereof, based on a fogginess sensor signal indicating a physical index related to the degree of fogging of the window of the vehicle or operation of a vehicle-mounted device of the vehicle capable of defogging operatio...