US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on July 21 for "Vehicle control device and control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,267, issued on July 21, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle control device and control method" was invented by Satoshi Sadamura (Tokyo) and Soichiro Ueura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device controls a vehicle. The control device includes circuitry configured to: detect a speed limit of a road on which the vehicle travels based on peripheral information on the vehicle obtained by an external sensor that the vehicle has; present a user of the vehicle, as a suggested speed, either a first speed based on the detected speed limit or a second speed set by the user; and perform travel control o...