ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,116, issued on May 19, was assigned to GLOBAL MOBILITY SERVICE INC. (Tokyo).

"Control device and control system" was invented by Nobuyuki Hashimoto (Tokyo), Yukinori Iwata (Tokyo), Koichi Hagishima (Tokyo) and Tokushi Nakashima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device includes a controller capable of setting activation of a drive device of a vehicle to be either enabled or disabled, the drive device being able to be activated by performing an activation operation in a case where a predetermined condition is satisfied, wherein in a case where activation of the drive device is set to be disabled, the controller prevents ac...