ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,856, issued on June 24, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vehicle control device" was invented by Ichiya Shimomura (Nagoya, Japan) and Shinya Otani (Nagoya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device includes: a communication unit that communicates with a mobile terminal; and a control unit that executes automatic parking control for causing the vehicle to travel to a target parking position and parking the vehicle in the target parking position in response to a signal transmitted by the mobile terminal. The control unit execute: first abnormality vehicle stop control for decelerating the vehicl...