ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,343, issued on Oct. 14, 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: "Provided is a vehicle control device configured to acquire a camera image obtained by imaging a peripheral situation of a vehicle, control steering and acceleration or deceleration of the vehicle on the basis of the camera image and map information irrespective of an operation of a driver of the vehicle, determine a driving mode of the vehicle to be any of a plurality of driving modes including a first driving mode and a second dri...