US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Sept. 22 for "Control device for vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,087, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Control device for vehicle" was invented by Gaku Shimamoto (Tokyo), Jumpei Noguchi (Tokyo) and Ayumu Mitomo (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device for a vehicle includes: a processor configured to start the vehicle in response to operation of one of a plurality of types of keys. The processor is accessible to a storage unit in which terminal information of a terminal for remotely controlling the vehicle is stored in association with the vehicle, the processor is configured to control autonomous movement of the vehicle in response to an operation ...