ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,501, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Control system and control method" was invented by Gakuyo Fujimoto (Wako, Japan), Hideki Matsunaga (Wako, Japan), Takashi Matsumoto (Wako, Japan) and Yuji Yasui (Wako, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system for a mobile object includes: a first sensor; a second sensor, different from the first sensor, that is mounted in the mobile object and is configured to detect an object by causing the mobile object to contact or approach the object; and a control device configured to recognize circumstances of the mobile object on the basis of a detection result ...