ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,835, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle control apparatus" was invented by Shota Ishikawa (Wako, Japan), Nana Niibo (Wako, Japan), Shun Iwasaki (Wako, Japan) and Takeru Goto (Wako, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control apparatus includes a microprocessor configured to perform: recognizing a surrounding situation of a subject vehicle; controlling a traveling actuator so that the subject vehicle travels along a target path generated based on a recognition result; and predicting, when an object is recognized in a current lane or in an adjacent lane, whether a passing run is occur ...