US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 9 for "Vehicle controller, method, and computer program for vehicle control" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,834, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle controller, method, and computer program for vehicle control" was invented by Ryusuke Kuroda (Tokyo-to, Japan), Kenichiro Aoki (Machida, Japan), Tetsuro Sugiura (Chofu, Japan), Takuya Fujiki (Tokyo-to, Japan), Hitoshi Kamada (Kawasaki, Japan), Wataru Kawashima (Nisshin, Japan) and Tadashi Okubo (Machida, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle controller includes a processor configured to detect a vehicle ahead of a host vehicle from time-series sensor signals obtained by a sensor provided on the host vehicle for sensing objects around the h...