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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,653, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle control device" was invented by Masaru Komatsubara (Tokyo), Kotono Yuze (Tokyo) and Shun Furumoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device includes a wheel speed acquisition unit which acquires wheel speeds of wheels of a vehicle based on detection results of wheel speed sensors, an acceleration acquisition unit which acquires an acceleration in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle based on a detection result of an acceleration sensor, a calculation unit which calculates a first vehicle speed based on the wheel speeds of the whee...