US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Sept. 1 for "Vehicle control device, method, and storage medium for switching a driving mode based on road line angle, distance, and region" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,665, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle control device, method, and storage medium for switching a driving mode based on road line angle, distance, and region" was invented by Takao Tamura (Tokyo) and Sho Tamura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a vehicle control device configured to: recognize a surrounding situation of a vehicle; control steering and acceleration/deceleration of the vehicle based on the recognized surrounding situation and map information; determine a driving mode of the vehicle as any one of a plurality of driving modes including a first driving mode and a sec...