US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Oct. 28 for "Rapid acceleration suppression device and rapid acceleration suppression control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,261, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Rapid acceleration suppression device and rapid acceleration suppression control method" was invented by Fumiaki Yoshikawa (Tokyo), Hisanori Yanagida (Tokyo), Satoshi Matsushita (Tokyo) and Takashi Watanabe (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rapid acceleration suppression device of a vehicle includes: a shift position acquisition part configured to acquire an operation position of a gearshift; an accelerator position acquisition part configured to acquire a depression amount of an accelerator pedal; an accelerator operation determination part configured to de...