US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Jan. 28 for "Vehicle control device and vehicle control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,347, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle control device and vehicle control method" was invented by Toshiyuki Matsubara (Gotenba, Japan), Masaki Matsunaga (Odawara, Japan), Kenichiro Aoki (Miyoshi, Japan), Yoshinori Watanabe (Gotenba, Japan) and Ryuta Hashimoto (Susono, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device includes a scene determination unit determining whether or not a current traveling scene is a traveling-restricted scene, an order setting unit setting priorities corresponding to a restriction with respect to driving behaviors previously classified for different...