ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,687, issued on June 16, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Control device and control method" was invented by Gaku Shimamoto (Tokyo), Jumpei Noguchi (Tokyo), Ayumu Mitomo (Tokyo), Takeshi Sasajima (Tokyo) and Makoto Bessho (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device controls a vehicle having a predetermined function. The control device is configured to obtain, via a network, data on availability of the predetermined function of the vehicle from a server that stores the data, and obtain the data, which is obtained from the server by a terminal device of a user of the vehicle, from the terminal device, and the co...