US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Jan. 13 for "Vehicle control apparatus, vehicle control method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,179, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle control apparatus, vehicle control method, and storage medium" was invented by Ryo Morosawa (Tokyo), Mitsunori Nishino (Tokyo) and Seonghun Lee (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control apparatus includes: an approach detection section; an authentication section; and a start control section. The approach detection section detects a person within a rear detection range and a lateral detection range. The rear detection range includes an area in a rear direction of a vehicle. The lateral detection range includes an area within a range different ...