ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,288, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle control device, vehicle control method, and program" was invented by Kanta Tsuji (Wako, Japan), Noriyuki Imaeda (Tokyo), Yoshifumi Nakamura (Wako, Japan), Takashi Kishimoto (Tokyo) and Daiki Higuchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device of embodiments includes a recognizer configured to recognize a surrounding status of a vehicle, a driving controller configured to control one or both of steering and acceleration or deceleration of the vehicle on the basis of the surrounding status recognized by the recognizer or map information, a...