US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Aug. 4 for "Assistance apparatus, vehicle, computer readable storage medium, and assistance method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,965, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Assistance apparatus, vehicle, computer readable storage medium, and assistance method" was invented by Masaharu Shinagawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assistance apparatus comprises a receiving unit which receives information indicating a position of a preceding vehicle which is traveling ahead of a vehicle in a running direction, a setting unit which sets a reference point to provide traveling assistance for the vehicle based on the position of the preceding vehicle when the preceding vehicle is determined to be hazardous for the vehicle to travel, and...