ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,490, issued on May 20, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Control device" was invented by Shinichi Okunishi (Saitama, Japan), Tatsuya Konishi (Saitama, Japan) and Keita Akiho (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device that performs travel control of a vehicle, includes a processor configured to acquire output information of a sensor configured to detect an object in an around of the vehicle based on a reflected wave from the object. The processor is configured to: acquire detection point data of the object in a peripheral region of the vehicle based on the output information of the sensor; and recogni...