ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,480, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, moving object, system, information processing method, and computer-readable storage medium to identify a risk area" was invented by Moriya Horiuchi (Saitama, Japan), Takahiro Kurehashi (Saitama, Japan) and Yuta Sakagawa (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes a risk area identification unit configured to identify a risk area outside a moving object and a transmission control unit configured to perform control for transmitting risk area information representing the risk area ident...