ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,679, issued on July 28, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Control device, control method, and program" was invented by Kohei Tsuda (Wako, Japan) and Sango Matsuzaki (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device includes a recognition part that recognizes a position of an object present around a moving body based on an image obtained by imaging a state around the moving body, an occupancy grid diagram generation part that generates an occupancy grid diagram including a plurality of grid cells based on the position of the object present around the moving body, and a route generation part that generates a rou...