ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,971, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Moving body control system, control method, storage medium, and moving body" was invented by Koki Aizawa (Wako, Japan), Ryoji Wakayama (Wako, Japan), Kento Shirakata (Wako, Japan) and Hideki Matsunaga (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A moving body control system of the present invention comprises: acquiring a captured image of a travel area of a destination of a moving body; recognizing a road shape included in the captured image; and generating a path of the moving body based on the road shape recognized by the recognition means. In the path generation, ...