ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,965, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle control device" was invented by Fumiaki Yoshikawa (Tokyo), Hisanori Yanagida (Tokyo), Takashi Watanabe (Tokyo) and Satoshi Matsushita (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device 1 incudes: a detection unit configured to detect an operation onto an accelerator pedal; a driving force limitation unit 21 configured to conduct driving force limitation control of limiting driving force of a vehicle in accordance with the operation onto the accelerator pedal; a limitation setting unit 22 configured to switch between activation and deactivation ...