ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,131, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vehicle control device" was invented by Shin Nomura (Seto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device capable of executing automatic takeoff control for automatically starting a own vehicle, the vehicle control device comprising: an object body determination unit that determines whether or not an object body that is to cross a front side of the own vehicle has been detected while the own vehicle is stopped; and a vehicle control unit that executes headlight-flashing of the own vehicle and suspends automatic takeoff of the own vehicle when...