ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,004, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Control device, control method, and storage medium" was invented by Jumpei Noguchi (Tokyo), Gaku Shimamoto (Tokyo), Ayumu Mitomo (Tokyo), Yujiro Komiyama (Tokyo), Akiyoshi Suda (Tokyo) and Chaoyang Wang (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device for a moving object, includes: a control unit capable of performing stop control to stop the moving object at a target position when a user of the moving object is not present in the moving object; and a storage unit in which software for movement control of the moving object is stored. In a case where the stop...