ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,075, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle control device, vehicle control method, and storage medium" was invented by Daichi Inoue (Tokyo) and Sho Tamura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device according to an embodiment includes a first recognizer that recognizes a surrounding situation including a first partition line partitioning a traveling lane of a host vehicle and a front traveling vehicle present in front of the host vehicle; a second recognizer that recognizes a second partition line partitioning a lane around the host vehicle from map information; and a driving con...