ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,921, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle control device, vehicle control method, and storage medium" was invented by Yoshihiro Oniwa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device of an embodiment includes a recognizer that recognizes a surrounding situation of a host vehicle, a driving state detector that detects a driving state including steering of an occupant of the host vehicle, a driving controller that executes steering control for supporting steering of the occupant when there is a probability that the host vehicle will come into contact with a surrounding obstacle on the ...