ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,014, issued on July 29, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Mobile object control device, mobile object control method, and storage medium" was invented by Koki Aizawa (Wako, Japan), Kosuke Nakanishi (Wako, Japan) and Takashi Matsumoto (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile object control device of an embodiment includes a partition line candidate recognizer that recognizes candidates for partition lines for partitioning a traveling lane in which a mobile object travels from a first image including the vicinity of the mobile object captured by an image capturer, and a partition line searcher that selects a pa...