US Patent Issued to Honda Motor, AISIN on Aug. 26 for "Control device, control method, and control program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,542, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo) and AISIN Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Control device, control method, and control program" was invented by Hiroyuki Nakashima (Tokyo), Yoji Inui (Kariya, Japan), Koki Ueda (Kariya, Japan) and Kazutaka Hayakawa (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device includes an outside recognition unit, a parking control unit, and a registration processing unit. When the user selects the parking position, the registration processing unit is configured to detect feature points of the parking position, start a registration process of registering the parking position...