US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on March 4 for "Mobile object control device and mobile object control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,479, issued on March 4, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Mobile object control device and mobile object control method" was invented by Hideki Matsunaga (Wako, Japan), Yuji Yasui (Wako, Japan), Takashi Matsumoto (Wako, Japan) and Gakuyo Fujimoto (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hardware processor of a mobile object executes the program stored in a storage device to acquire information indicating a road situation in a traveling direction of a mobile object; to recognize whether the mobile object is moving on a roadway or a predetermined region different from the roadway; to recognize presence of a contact po...