US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 23 for "Vehicle control device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,773, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle control device" was invented by Masumi Dakemoto (Nagoya, Japan), Kaiji Itabashi (Nagoya, Japan) and Yoshihisa Yamada (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The vehicle control device includes an arbitration unit configured to arbitrate between a plurality of control commands acquired from a plurality of driving support applications that respectively implements driving support functions, configured to output instructions based on a control command after arbitration to a first control unit that is able to control a steering actuator and a sec...