US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 18 for "Door control device, storage medium storing computer program for door control, and method for door control" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,907, issued on March 18, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Door control device, storage medium storing computer program for door control, and method for door control" was invented by Hiromitsu Kobayashi (Nagoya, Japan), Hiromitsu Urano (Numazu, Japan) and Takefumi Goto (Gotemba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A door control device has a processor configured to determine whether or not an emergency situation has occurred in a vehicle, based on operation by a user on an operating unit that is to be operated to open a door of the vehicle, and to decide to open the door when it has been determined by the first ...