ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,385, issued on April 15, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Control device for automatic stop of vehicle" was invented by Ryohsaku Arakawa (Tokyo) and Hirotomo Muroi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device for automatic stop of a vehicle, wherein the vehicle includes a radar and a sonar, the radar detecting a distance to an obstacle and detecting a height of the obstacle from a road surface, the sonar detecting the distance to the obstacle and detecting a signal level of a reflected wave from the obstacle. The control device includes a control unit having a processor configured to output a signal for trigger...