US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Oct. 27 for "Road surface based mobile object travel state controller" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,996, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Road surface based mobile object travel state controller" was invented by Hideki Matsunaga (Wako, Japan), Takashi Matsumoto (Wako, Japan), Ryoji Wakayama (Wako, Japan), Koki Aizawa (Wako, Japan), Kento Shirakata (Wako, Japan) and Yunosuke Kuramitsu (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided a device for controlling a mobile object which one or more occupants are on board and which is movable both on a roadway and in a predetermined region different from the roadway, the device including: a road type recognizer configured to recognize which type of road t...