ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,935, issued on May 27, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle speed control device" was invented by Noriaki Suzuki (Tokyo), Kazuya Sakurai (Tokyo) and Tetsuya Suko (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle speed control device is configured to: acquire an AP opening rate of an accelerator pedal of a vehicle; perform deceleration control according to an AP opening rate-target driving force characteristic; when an operation element is operated for deceleration in a state where pressing on the accelerator pedal has been released, change the characteristic to a second characteristic representing, for a deceleration ...