ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,413, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle control device and method" was invented by Toshimi Kaneko (Tokyo), Taichi Kitamura (Tokyo), Kazuya Moriyama (Tokyo) and Yurina Morimoto (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device includes: a gear changing part having a parking brake holding the vehicle in a stationary state, a driving gear that maintains driving the vehicle, and a parking gear that holds a parked state; a control switch disposed in the gear changing part and able to perform actuation of the parking brake and the parking gear simultaneously through an operation of pressi...