ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,795, issued on June 24, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle control system and control method of vehicle control system" was invented by Yuji Tsuchiya (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system includes: a vehicle outside image acquisition unit configured to acquire a vehicle outside image; a first detection unit configured to detect a vehicle outside person based on the vehicle outside image acquired by the vehicle outside image acquisition unit; a second detection unit configured to detect an approach mode for the vehicle outside person detected by the first detection unit; a comparison unit con...