ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,967, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle control device, operation method of vehicle control device, and storage medium" was invented by Nozomu Hirosawa (Wako, Japan) and Daichi Kato (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device comprising: an acquisition unit that acquires surrounding information of a self-vehicle; and a control unit that controls traveling of the self-vehicle based on the surrounding information, wherein the control unit estimates whether a traveling speed of the self-vehicle will be equal to or less than a predetermined speed based on a relative speed between a travelin...