ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,019, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle control device" was invented by Ko Iwano (Tokyo), Kyoji Hamamoto (Tokyo), Masaya Kusatani (Tokyo) and Yuki Mano (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device includes: an idle-stop controller configured to control an idle-stop function of a vehicle; and an electric power steering controller configured to assist a steering operation with an electric motor. The electric power steering controller is configured such that, when the electric power steering controller detects a failure by diagnosis, the electric power steering controller controls...