ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,016, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Control device, control method, and storage medium" was invented by Keisuke Oka (Saitama, Japan), Shun Iwasaki (Tokyo) and Shota Ishikawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device includes: an external environment recognition unit configured to acquire recognition data of an external environment; an automatic driving control unit configured to perform automatic driving control; a storage unit configured to store target position information; and a target position detection unit configured to detect a target position. When the target position is detec...