US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on July 7 for "Vehicle control apparatus, vehicle control method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,685, issued on July 7, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle control apparatus, vehicle control method, and storage medium" was invented by Seonghun Lee (Tokyo) and Ryo Morosawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control apparatus includes: an approach detection section; a determination section; and an openable and closeable object operation control section. The approach detection section detects a person within a first detection range and a second detection range. The determination section determines whether or not a motion of a person detected by the approach detection section corresponds to an approach...