US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on June 23 for "Driving assistance device, driving assistance method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,114, issued on June 23, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Driving assistance device, driving assistance method, and program" was invented by Yuji Kaneda (Wako, Japan), Ryo Ushiki (Wako, Japan), Takuya Furukawa (Wako, Japan) and Jun Suzuki (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving assistance device including: a controller configured to stop a vehicle by instructing a brake device of the vehicle in a case in which the degree of approach between a target object among objects and the vehicle satisfies a first condition by referring to an output of a detection device detecting presence of the objects that are pres...