US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on March 31 for "Driving assistance device, vehicle control system, and driving assistance method for frontal collision detection and avoidance" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,735, issued on March 31, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Driving assistance device, vehicle control system, and driving assistance method for frontal collision detection and avoidance" was invented by Keisuke Oka (Wako, Japan), Shinya Maruo (Wako, Japan), Shunya Ishikawa (Wako, Japan) and Yohei Kitahara (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving assistance device mounted in a vehicle operates together with an automated driving control device for automatically controlling steering, acceleration, and deceleration of the vehicle in either of a first state in which a driver is not gripping a steering operation ...