US Patent Issued to Honda Motor, SoftBank on Sept. 29 for "Risk area information transmitting apparatus, risk area information transmitting method, and computer-readable storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,954, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo) and SoftBank Corp. (Tokyo).

"Risk area information transmitting apparatus, risk area information transmitting method, and computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Moriya Horiuchi (Saitama, Japan), Takahiro Kurehashi (Saitama, Japan), Yuta Sakagawa (Saitama, Japan), Koichi Serizawa (Tokyo) and Koyo Enomoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Included are a storage unit which stores position information of a plurality of risk areas which may pose a risk for a vehicle to travel; a rearrangement unit which rearranges the plurality of risk areas in order of ...