ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,984, issued on April 15, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Moving body control device, moving body control method, and non-transient computer-readable recording medium" was invented by Sachiko Yamamoto (Saitama, Japan), Shinichiro Kobashi (Saitama, Japan) and Misato Echizenya (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure supports accident prevention or evacuation action of a user who is on board a moving body when a disaster occurs. A moving body control device includes: a moving body control part that controls a moving body maintained in a first state or a second state that is more stable than the first state by a...