US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on May 6 for "Vehicle speed limiting device, vehicle speed limiting method, and vehicle speed limiting program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,208, issued on May 6, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle speed limiting device, vehicle speed limiting method, and vehicle speed limiting program" was invented by Masaru Otsuki (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle speed limiting device includes a control device with first and second speed limiting functions, and a first cancel function for disabling the first speed limiting function when a first condition is satisfied and the vehicle speed matches a first speed. The control device has a first cancel function canceling the second speed limiting function when an elapsed time from a first ti...