US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Oct. 27 for "Performing appropriate automated driving for each occupant" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,995, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Performing appropriate automated driving for each occupant" was invented by Daichi Kato (Wako, Japan) and Nozomu Hirosawa (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device includes a first inputter, a second inputter, a mode controller configured to, when the first inputter is operated by a user, determine a driving mode of a vehicle as a first mode, and when the second inputter is operated by the user in the first mode, switch the driving mode from the first mode to a second mode, and a driving controller configured to control at least one of a...