ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,706, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Control device" was invented by Atsushi Ishioka (Saitama, Japan) and Takuma Ando (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device for controlling a vehicle including an external sensor that acquires surrounding information of the vehicle and a notification device capable of executing a predetermined notification to an occupant of the vehicle, the control device including processing circuitry configured to execute alarm control for causing the notification device to execute the notification, when an object that has a possibility of colliding with t...