ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,485, issued on March 24, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan).

"Driving assistance device, driving assistance method, and non-transitory computer readable medium storing driving assistance program" was invented by Akihiro Hayashi (Kariya-city, Japan), Kahori Okada (Kariya-city, Japan), Kazuki Kojima (Kariya-city, Japan) and Shiori Maneyama (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving assistance device is configured to assist driving of a vehicle having an autonomous driving function. A traffic status acquisition unit is configured to acquire a traffic status in a section between a present location of the ...