ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,745, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Traffic safety support system" was invented by Akihito Kimata (Saitama, Japan), Shigeru Inoue (Saitama, Japan), Yuji Takagi (Saitama, Japan), Masaki Okumoto (Saitama, Japan), Yoshitaka Mimura (Saitama, Japan), Takahiro Kurehashi (Saitama, Japan) and Hideo Kadowaki (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A traffic safety support system 1 includes mobile terminals that move with traffic participants in a target traffic area, and a coordination support device 6 capable of communicating with the mobile terminals. Each of the mobile terminals includes a notifica...