US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Jan. 20 for "Apparatus for protecting pedestrian from vehicle collision" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,436, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Apparatus for protecting pedestrian from vehicle collision" was invented by Kenji Komori (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle, comprising a monitoring unit configured to monitor a surrounding environment of a vehicle body, a detection unit configured to detect an impact applied onto the vehicle body, a plurality of impact absorption units, and an operation control unit configured to selectively operate the plurality of impact absorption units, based on at least one of a monitoring result from the monitoring unit and a detection result from the det...