ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,292, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan).

"Travel assist system, travel assist method, and travel-assist control program" was invented by Kenichiro Imai (Kariya-city, Japan) and Toru Nagura (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a travel assist system, a travel assist control unit selectively performs an off-peak task upon receiving at least one assistance request during an off-peak situation where there are a predetermined number of free operators included in a first group. The off-peak task assigns the at least one assistance request to a selected one of the free operators included in ...