ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,515, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle control device, vehicle control method, and storage medium" was invented by Masashi Kanesaka (Tokyo), Yuma Yoshida (Tokyo), Daichi Kato (Tokyo), Haruhiko Nishiguchi (Tokyo) and Akio Futatsudera (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device includes a recognizer configured to recognize a surrounding situation of a vehicle, a driving controller configured to execute driving control for controlling one or both of steering and a speed of the vehicle, an incoming call determiner configured to determine presence or absence of an incoming call for ...