US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Sept. 1 for "Vehicle control device, control method, and computer readable medium storing control program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,640, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle control device, control method, and computer readable medium storing control program" was invented by Takuya Furukawa (Tokyo), Yuki Kizumi (Tokyo) and Ryo Ushiki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device for controlling a vehicle, includes: a first recognition unit configured to recognize a surrounding situation of the vehicle; a second recognition unit configured to, in a case where a shielding object present in front of the vehicle is recognized by the first recognition unit, recognize a shielding area shielded by the shielding objec...