ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,473, issued on May 20, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle control device, vehicle control method, and storage medium" was invented by Atsuhiro Sekikawa (Wako, Japan) and Shotaro Taniguchi (Wako, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control method includes recognizing another vehicle present in the surroundings of an own vehicle, detecting an orientation of a face or a line of sight of a driver of the own vehicle, on the basis of a position of the other vehicle present in a second lane adjacent to a first lane in which the own vehicle is present, outputting predetermined information indicating that the ot...