ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,939, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Control device for vehicle and vehicle control system" was invented by Fumito Itoh (Susono, Japan), Yusuke Suzuki (Hadano, Japan) and Kosuke Yamamoto (Gotemba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device for a vehicle configured to travel in a one-pedal mode in which driving and braking are controlled in response to operations on only an accelerator pedal is configured to control a braking force of the vehicle by using deceleration maps in which decelerations in a plurality of traveling directions are set for any points based on traveling history ...