US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Aug. 4 for "Device for controlling mobile object and method for controlling mobile object" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,977, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Device for controlling mobile object and method for controlling mobile object" was invented by Koki Aizawa (Wako, Japan), Yunosuke Kuramitsu (Wako, Japan), Kento Shirakata (Wako, Japan), Ryoji Wakayama (Wako, Japan), Hideki Matsunaga (Wako, Japan) and Takashi Matsumoto (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for controlling a mobile object capable of moving both on a roadway and in a predetermined area different from the roadway, one or more passengers boarding the mobile object, includes a road type recognizer that recognizes whether the mobile object ...