US Patent Issued to AISIN, Honda Motor on Oct. 27 for "Driving support device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,948, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Kariya, Japan) and Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Driving support device" was invented by Yoji Inui (Kariya, Japan), Masaki Furukawa (Kariya, Japan), Norio Imai (Kariya, Japan) and Kazuya Kobayashi (Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving support device of an embodiment is a driving support device that performs, based on surrounding information collected by a plurality of sensors provided in a vehicle, parking support for the vehicle. When the parking support is performed, a calculation module starts, when a width of a frontage of a parking area for the vehicle to ...