ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,378, issued on July 14, 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 automatically controls steering of a vehicle and performs automatic lane-change based on a surrounding-situation and instruction information that is a lane-change instruction. The instruction information includes first-instruction-information transmitted in response to an operation of a first operator and second-instruction-information transmitted in response to an operation of a second operator. The ...