US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on June 30 for "Vehicle control system, method for controlling vehicle, and vehicle" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,246, issued on June 30, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle control system, method for controlling vehicle, and vehicle" was invented by Faizan M. Tariq (San Jose, Calif.), David F. Isele (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Sangjae Bae (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a vehicle and a vehicle control system control a vehicle in one of a motion planning mode and a crash mitigation mode. To switch from the motion planning mode to the crash mitigation mode, both instantaneous and predictive risk evaluation techniques are employed, and a hysteresis band is used to return control from the cra...