US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Jan. 27 for "Vehicle control device and method for adjusting acceleration suppression based on surrounding object information and switching driving modes" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,111, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle control device and method for adjusting acceleration suppression based on surrounding object information and switching driving modes" was invented by Shogo Nishizawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device and a vehicle control method thereof are provided. When a vehicle is switched from an autonomous driving mode to a manual driving mode and an operation amount of an accelerator exceeds a preset operation amount or an operation speed of the accelerator exceeds a preset operation speed, a driving force suppression control is executed...