ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,350, issued on April 7, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Collision alert device and collision alert method" was invented by Masaki Maruyama (Wako, Japan) and Katsuhito Aoki (Wako, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A collision alert device includes a calculation part repeatedly calculating, at a prescribed time interval, a time-to-collision obtained by dividing a distance between moving objects by a relative velocity of two moving objects, the distance between moving objects being a distance between the two moving objects, and an output part outputting an alert in at least one of the two moving objects as a condition ...