US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on May 13 for "Vehicle control device, medium for storing computer program for vehicle control, and method for controlling vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,861, issued on May 13, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle control device, medium for storing computer program for vehicle control, and method for controlling vehicle" was invented by Takahiro Kawano (Tokyo-to, Japan), Ryuta Hashimoto (Tokyo-to, Japan), Takahiro Seta (Yokohama, Japan), Kota Harada (Tokyo-to, Japan) and Yuki Mori (Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device has a processor configured to determine whether or not there exists a branching location where the vehicle is to exit from the traveling in a predetermined driving zone of a navigation route and, when a branchin...