ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,851, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle" was invented by Ko Hosokawa (Tokyo), Masato Nakata (Tokyo), Akihiko Tomoda (Tokyo) and Shunichi Nakabayashi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This vehicle includes a lane keeping assistance system and a control device which controls steering of the vehicle, wherein the control device divides a width of a lane in which the vehicle travels into a plurality of virtual lanes and controls the vehicle so that the vehicle travels in one virtual lane among the plurality of virtual lanes. The control device controls the vehicle so that a traveling position of th...