US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on April 8 for "Vehicle control device, vehicle, vehicle control method and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,514, issued on April 8, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle control device, vehicle, vehicle control method and storage medium" was invented by Junya Yoda (Wako, Japan) and Katsuya Yashiro (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device controls travel of a vehicle by performing state transition for a plurality of control states having different driving assistance levels based on vehicle surrounding information. The vehicle control device comprises: an acquisition unit configured to acquire the vehicle surrounding information; and a control unit configured to control the state transition and br...