US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on May 13 for "Vehicle control device, vehicle, method of controlling vehicle control device, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,818, issued on May 13, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle control device, vehicle, method of controlling vehicle control device, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Yuji Yasui (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention provides a vehicle control device for controlling a vehicle, which comprises a first detection unit configured to detect an out-of-lane region outside a lane in which the vehicle is traveling; a second detection unit configured to detect an obstacle; a guiding unit configured to start guiding the vehicle to the out-of-lane region in a case where the f...