ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,862, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Kariya, Japan) and Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Automated braking control device and automated braking processing program" was invented by Atsushi Nakabayashi (Kariya, Japan), Tatsuya Watanabe (Tokyo) and Kohei Toshima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated braking control device includes: an acquisition unit to acquire traveling direction information representing a traveling direction of a vehicle, speed information related to the vehicle, and position information of an object based on a detection wave transmitted and received for detecting the object in the traveling ...