US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on May 20 for "Driving control device, method, and non-transitory storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,452, issued on May 20, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Driving control device, method, and non-transitory storage medium" was invented by Takaaki Tokura (Nagoya, Japan), Katsumi Kono (Toyota, Japan) and Takeshi Yasuda (Kuwana, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving control device mounted on a vehicle includes a processor. The processor is configured to create a speed profile. The processor is configured to approximate the speed profile by a predetermined approximate model and estimate a predicted amount of regenerative energy based on an approximation result. The processor is configured to set, based on ...