ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,233,834, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle control device, vehicle control method, and storage medium" was invented by Yugo Kajiwara (Wako, Japan) and Yuichi Masukake (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device includes: a recognizer configured to recognize a surrounding situation of a host vehicle; an input unit configured to receive an input operation from an occupant of the host vehicle; a controller configured to perform automatic stop control of decelerating and stopping the host vehicle when the input operation is received by the input unit; and a setter configured to...