ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,408, issued on April 15, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle control apparatus" was invented by Daichi Kato (Wako, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control apparatus includes a microprocessor configured to perform generating an action plan so that the subject vehicle moves from a first lane to a second lane when it is determined that the lane change is necessary. The target route includes a specific road in which the second lane is separated from the first lane up to a first point ahead of a current position, the second lane is adjacent to the first lane from the first point to a second point ahead of ...