ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,693, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vehicle control apparatus" was invented by Tomoki Somiya (Okazaki, Japan) and Yusuke Fukui (Miyoshi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control apparatus executes an acceleration suppression control to suppress an acceleration of an own vehicle when an operating condition including a condition that an accelerator pedal operation amount is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold value is satisfied. The vehicle control apparatus sets the predetermined threshold value to a smaller value when an object entry condition that an object has a p...