US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Sept. 8 for "Mobile object control device, mobile object control method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,458, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Mobile object control device, mobile object control method, and storage medium" was invented by Hideki Matsunaga (Wako, Japan), Takashi Matsumoto (Wako, Japan), Ryoji Wakayama (Wako, Japan), Koki Aizawa (Wako, Japan), Kento Shirakata (Wako, Japan) and Yunosuke Kuramitsu (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile object control device for controlling a mobile object capable of moving both on a roadway and in a predetermined region different from the roadway includes a road type recognition unit configured to set a virtual central lane including an assumed...