ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,369, issued on April 7, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Control system, mobile object, control method, and storage medium" was invented by Misako Yoshimura (Wako, Japan), Ichiro Baba (Wako, Japan), Kosuke Nakanishi (Wako, Japan), Yosuke Koike (Wako, Japan) and Koki Aizawa (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system of a mobile object that can move in any one operation mode determined from a plurality of operation modes is provided. The control system includes: a storage device configured to store instructions; and one or more processors, wherein the one or more processors execute the instructions store...