ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,156, issued on May 19, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle control device, vehicle control method, and storage medium" was invented by Daichi Inoue (Tokyo) and Sho Tamura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device is configured to acquire a camera image obtained by imaging a surrounding situation of a vehicle, generate a traveling possible region, which is a region where the vehicle is able to travel, based on first information including a traveling route shape defined by a road marking line captured in the camera image and second information including a traveling route shape defined by a road ma...