ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,952, issued on April 7, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Control device for auto lane changing" was invented by Nozomu Hirosawa (Tokyo) and Tomotaka Teramachi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device includes: a recognition unit configured to recognize at a surrounding situation of a moving object; a lane change determination unit configured to determine, based on the surrounding situation, whether lane change control is executable; a travel control unit configured to execute the lane change control in response to determination that the lane change control is executable; and a notification control unit con...