ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,282, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle control device, vehicle control method, and storage medium for changing lane at branch station" was invented by Daichi Kato (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device according to an embodiment includes a recognizer that recognizes a surroundings situation of a host vehicle, and a driving controller that generates a target trajectory for the host vehicle on the basis of a recognition result of the recognizer, and controls one or both of speed and steering of the host vehicle so that the host vehicle travels along the generated tar...