ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,514, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle control device, vehicle control method, and storage medium for determining the lane to which an object in the vicinity of a vehicle belongs" was invented by Naoto Hiramatsu (Wako, Japan) and Yoshimitsu Murahashi (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device according to an embodiment includes an imager configured to image surroundings of a host vehicle, a recognizer configured to recognize a surroundings situation of the host vehicle, a driving controller configured to control one or both of speed and steering of the host vehicle, ...