ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,970, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Control device and control method for restart of speed control of a vehicle" was invented by Kazuki Tomioka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device for a vehicle includes a travel control unit configured to provide a speed control function for automatically controlling a speed and configured to interrupt an operation of the speed control function in response to a braking operation element of the vehicle being operated by a driver during the operation of the speed control function, and a proposal unit configured to provide a restart proposal to the dri...