US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on March 24 for "Driving support system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,451, issued on March 24, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Driving support system" was invented by Makoto Katayama (Tokyo) and Hiroki Tanaka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving support control apparatus acquires forward information regarding a state ahead of an own vehicle V3, sets a preceding vehicle as a tracking target and executes tracking control of causing the own vehicle to automatically track this tracking target. While an offset preceding vehicle V2 traveling laterally ahead of the own vehicle and a front preceding vehicle V1 traveling ahead of the offset preceding vehicle V2 and traveling at a clos...