ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,950, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Control device for vehicle and control method for vehicle" was invented by Takuya Kume (Kariya, Japan) and Kazuki Izumi (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle is capable of performing automated driving including a lane keep control, which is to automatically perform lane keep of a vehicle, and an offset control, which is to automatically offset a travel position of the vehicle in a width direction of the vehicle by increasing a distance from an other vehicle, which travels side-by-side with the vehicle. A control device for the vehicle includes a l...