ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,006, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Travel control apparatus" was invented by Tatsuya Konishi (Tokyo), Akinori Oi (Tokyo), Yuya Kaneda (Tokyo), Kenta Ishii (Tokyo) and Tomoyuki Yokoyama (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A travel control apparatus includes: a detection unit configured to detect an exterior environment situation around a subject vehicle; and a microprocessor configured to perform: recognizing, based on a detected value of the detection unit, a traveling state of a preceding vehicle on a current lane; determining, based on a recognized result in the recognizing, whether the preceding...