US Patent Issued to Honda Motor, AISIN on Dec. 2 for "Control device, control method, and control program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,598, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo) and AISIN Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Control device, control method, and control program" was invented by Hiroyuki Nakashima (Tokyo), Tatsuro Fujiwara (Tokyo), Kazutaka Hayakawa (Kariya, Japan) and Yoji Inui (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device for a moving body includes an outside recognition unit, a parking candidate position detection unit, and a reception unit. The parking candidate position detection unit is configured to be able to execute a first detection process of detecting an unregistered parking candidate position and a second detect...