US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Dec. 30 for "Vehicle control device, storage medium storing computer program for vehicle control, and method for controlling vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,079, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle control device, storage medium storing computer program for vehicle control, and method for controlling vehicle" was invented by Yoshiki Nakatsuru (Tokyo-to, Japan), Yoshihiro Aotani (Kawasaki, Japan), Eiki Kitagawa (Tokyo-to, Japan) and Satoru Akahane (Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device has a processor configured to detect an other vehicle in a detection mode 1 in a visual field boundary zone, detect the other vehicle in a detection mode 2 with higher precision in a zone other than the visual field boundary zone...