US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on March 25 for "Vehicle controller, vehicle, and vehicle control method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,017, issued on March 25, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle controller, vehicle, and vehicle control method" was invented by Katsuya Yashiro (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle controller includes: a surrounding area recognition unit that detects a state surrounding a subject vehicle; a human detection unit that detects a specific target object in a specific area into which entry of the specific target object is restricted; an automated driving control part that provides control such that the subject vehicle follows a vehicle traveling ahead thereof, based on a result detected by the surrounding...