ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,694, issued on June 17, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Constant-speed travel apparatus" was invented by Akira Kato (Wako, Japan), Hiroshi Yamamoto (Wako, Japan), Kazumi Miyashita (Wako, Japan) and Yoshiyuki Misumi (Wako, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Constant-speed-travel-apparatus controlling prime-mover so that mobile-body mounted with the prime-mover travels at constant-speed, includes: function-operation-member being instructed activation of speed-maintaining-function of the mobile-body in response to operation by operator; first-speed-operation-member being instructed the travel-speed of the mobile-body in...