ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,401, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle control system" was invented by Fumiaki Yoshikawa (Tokyo), Hisanori Yanagida (Tokyo), Takashi Watanabe (Tokyo) and Satoshi Matsushita (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control system for controlling an output of a drive source in a vehicle includes: a drive operation member configured to receive an input regarding a driving force for the vehicle from a driver of the vehicle; and a control device configured to cause the drive source to output a driving force corresponding to the input to the drive operation member. When the control device dete...