US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on April 7 for "Vehicle control device, vehicle control method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,993, issued on April 7, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle control device, vehicle control method, and storage medium" was invented by Tomotaka Teramachi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device recognizes a surrounding situation of a vehicle, controls steering of the vehicle such that the vehicle proceeds along a route on the basis of the surrounding situation and the route along which the vehicle is scheduled to proceed, determines whether or not to cause the vehicle to make a lane change from a traveling lane in which the vehicle is traveling to a branch lane branching from the traveling l...