ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,380, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle, control device and control method therefor" was invented by Yuji Yasui (Wako, Japan), Gakuyo Fujimoto (Wako, Japan) and Misako Yoshimura (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device for controlling a vehicle is configured to identify a risk factor present in surroundings of the vehicle and a direction of the risk factor with respect to the vehicle, display, on the display device, risk information indicating the direction of the risk factor with a first emphasis degree, and take a guidance action using the steering operation element. The gu...