US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Nov. 4 for "Vehicle control device, vehicle control method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,505, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle control device, vehicle control method, and storage medium" was invented by Takao Tamura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device includes: a first recognizer configured to recognize a surrounding situation of a vehicle including a first marking; a second recognizer configured to recognize a second marking associated with a lane near the vehicle from map; a driving controller; and a mode determiner. The mode determiner is configured to perform: determining a driving mode and determining whether to refer to the map based on a determinati...