ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,265, issued on March 3, 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 host vehicle, causes the host vehicle to make a lane change from a first lane in which the host vehicle is traveling to a second lane adjacent to the first lane by controlling steering of the host vehicle on the basis of the surrounding situation, executes the lane change when no vehicle is present on a target road shoulder in a direction of the lane change and ...