ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,704, issued on June 16, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Driving assistance device" was invented by Takanori Suzuki (Kariya, Japan) and Kota Ishikawa (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving assistance device performs driving assistance of a vehicle on a basis of surrounding information collected by a plurality of sensors provided in the vehicle. The driving assistance device includes: a route calculation unit configured to calculate a movement route of the vehicle to a target position on a basis of the surrounding information from the plurality of sensors; a movement control unit configured to move the ve...