US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on May 20 for "Vehicle control device, vehicle, and vehicle system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,507, issued on May 20, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle control device, vehicle, and vehicle system" was invented by Nobuyuki Tomatsu (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle system includes an auxiliary vehicle that includes an auxiliary sensor and an auxiliary actuator, and a vehicle that communicates with the auxiliary vehicle. The vehicle includes an in-vehicle sensor that acquires information of an external environment of the vehicle, an in-vehicle actuator used in traveling of the vehicle, a vehicle control device that controls driving of the in-vehicle actuator using an input from th...