ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,836, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle control device" was invented by Takuma Kobayashi (Tokyo), Yuichi Komori (Tokyo), Yuko Sugimura (Tokyo), Yuichi Masukake (Tokyo), Yugo Kajiwara (Tokyo) and Shohei Noai (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle controller is configured to: recognize a surrounding situation of a vehicle; execute first control of giving a first alarm to an occupant of the vehicle in response to a first condition being satisfied; execute second control of controlling braking or steering of the vehicle and giving a second alarm to the occupant in response to a second con...