ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,753, issued on March 24, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Route guidance device, system and route guidance method" was invented by Kazuma Tamaki (Wako, Japan), Yuji Yasui (Wako, Japan), Tokitomo Ariyoshi (Wako, Japan), Hideki Matsunaga (Wako, Japan) and Ken Iinuma (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A route guidance device that guides a user along a movement route, the route guidance device including an acquisition unit configured to acquire, from a communication device, location information including a departure location and a destination location of the user, a search unit configured to search for a plurality...