ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,401, issued on May 5, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle control device and control method" was invented by Kazuki Tomioka (Tokyo), Yoshimitsu Murahashi (Tokyo) and Soichiro Ueura (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device is configured to execute travel control of controlling a vehicle such that a travel speed of the vehicle is a target speed corresponding to an inter-vehicle distance between the vehicle and a preceding vehicle traveling in front of the vehicle, or a predetermined target speed set by a driver of the vehicle, and acceleration limit control of limiting acceleration of the vehicle ...