ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,034, issued on March 25, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Control device" was invented by Yuichi Komori (Saitama, Japan) and Shohei Noai (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device for controlling a host vehicle includes processing circuitry configured to: recognize partition lines marking off left and right sides of a travel path on which the host vehicle travels; estimate a possibility of the host vehicle to depart from the travel path based on a position and a posture of the host vehicle with respect to the recognized partition lines; and control the notification based on the estimated possibilit...