US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Nov. 4 for "Vehicle control device, storage medium for storing computer program for vehicle control, and method for controlling vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,543, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle control device, storage medium for storing computer program for vehicle control, and method for controlling vehicle" was invented by Wataru Kawashima (Nisshin, Japan) and Ryosuke Hata (Arakawa-ku Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device has a processor configured to estimate an amount of rainfall per unit time based on an acoustic signal acquired by an acoustical sensor mounted on a vehicle, determine whether a present operation mode of the vehicle is a first operation mode with a lower level to which a driver is contrib...