ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,939, issued on May 27, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Rapid acceleration suppression device" was invented by Shinya Kobayashi (Tokyo) and Fumiaki Yoshikawa (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rapid acceleration suppression device of a subject vehicle includes: an information acquisition part configured to acquire information on vehicle speed and time-series information on accelerator position; a determination part configured to determine whether or not the accelerator has been performed abnormally, based on the time-series information on the accelerator position; and a control part configured to provide control ov...