ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,492, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle control method" was invented by Naoki Nomura (Saitama, Japan), Hirotaka Onuki (Saitama, Japan), Makoto Hattori (Saitama, Japan) and Masayuki Sunamoto (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle management method includes assembling a vehicle body of a vehicle and a power source to be mounted on the vehicle, acquiring, at a first time, first gear-ratio-related information which is information related to a gear ratio of a transmission section, the transmission section being a whole or part of a power transmission mechanism between the power sour...