ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,982, issued on Sept. 30, 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 includes: an accelerator pedal operation detecting unit, a state quantity acquiring devices, and a driving force limiting unit that limits a driving force based on an accelerator pedal operation and a vehicle state quantity. The driving force limiting unit executes acceleration suppression control for setting an upper limit value of the driving force to a first...