ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,169, issued on April 21, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle control apparatus" was invented by Yoshihiro Oniwa (Saitama, Japan) and Daichi Kato (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control apparatus includes a recognition unit configured to recognize an environment in a vicinity of a vehicle; and a traveling control unit configured to execute a lane change of the vehicle based on a recognition result 1w the recognition unit. The traveling control unit selectively executes a lane change of the vehicle based on proposal information of a lane change output to a driver of the vehicle by the travel...