ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,968, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Traveling control apparatus for controlling vehicle travel based on target path generated from recognition results of division lines" was invented by Shingo Ito (Wako, Japan), Tadahiko Kanoh (Wako, Japan) and Yuki Kizumi (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control apparatus includes a microprocessor and a first and second exterior environment detection units configured to detect an exterior environment situation in a predetermined region around the subject vehicle respectively. The microprocessor is configured to perform: recognizing a pair of left...