ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,170, issued on April 21, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Control device" was invented by Tomotaka Teramachi (Tokyo), Tatsuya Konishi (Tokyo), Kenta Ishii (Tokyo) and Shinichi Okunishi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device has a lane change function to execute lane change control of changing a lane in which a moving object travels. In a case where a lane change function is enabled, a travel control unit of the control device restricts, in response to it being estimated that another moving object is present in a specific region in which accuracy of detecting an object by an external sensor is relatively...