ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,468, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle control apparatus" was invented by Takahiro Yokota (Susono, Japan), Atsushi Kodama (Shizuoka, Japan), Hiroki Fukuda (Shizuoka, Japan), Taichi Kawanai (Susono, Japan), Daichi Hotta (Tokyo) and Nobuhide Kamata (Susono, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control apparatus for performing autonomous driving of a host vehicle. The vehicle control apparatus includes an operating section information acquisition unit configured to acquire operating section information that is information of an operating section in which vehicle stability control ...