ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,171, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle control device, vehicle, method of controlling vehicle control device, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Yuji Yasui (Wako, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention provides a vehicle control device for controlling a vehicle, which comprises a first detection unit configured to detect an out-of-lane region outside a lane in which the vehicle is traveling; a second detection unit configured to detect an obstacle; and a determination unit configured to determine that performing steering control in the out-of-lane ...