ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,248, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle control device, control method, and computer readable medium storing control program" was invented by Tomokazu Mitsui (Tokyo) and Yuki Kizumi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device for controlling a vehicle, includes: a recognition unit configured to recognize a surrounding situation of the vehicle; a deviation calculation unit configured to, in a case where a traffic light is recognized by the recognition unit, calculate a deviation amount of the traffic light relative to a travel path on which the vehicle travels; a determination un...