ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,520, issued on May 20, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle control device, vehicle control method, and storage medium" was invented by Koichiro Wada (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device controls automated driving of a vehicle and includes a processor configured to execute a program to acquire map information including information of lanes and reference information for identifying a position of the vehicle, determine a travel lane in which the vehicle is traveling in the map information based on the acquired reference information; determine lane candidates in which the vehicle is trav...