ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,360, issued on July 22, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle system, control method, and storage medium" was invented by Daichi Kato (Wako, Japan), Takashi Kuboshima (Wako, Japan) and Masashi Kanesaka (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle system recognizes a situation of surroundings of a host vehicle, automatically controls at least steering of the host vehicle on the basis of the recognized situation of the surroundings to cause the host vehicle to perform lane change, acquires information on a route from a navigation device guiding the route along which the host vehicle travels, and suppresses con...