ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,879, issued on June 24, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Control device for vehicle" was invented by Masakazu Aoki (Nagoya, Japan), Yohsuke Hashimoto (Nagakute, Japan) and Satoshi Takamoto (Miyoshi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device for a vehicle controls a subject vehicle configured to switch between manual driving and automated driving. The control device includes a processor and a memory device. The processor is configured to execute learning control that learns vehicle-to-vehicle distance when the driver stops the subject vehicle during the manual driving, and to reflect a learning result ...