ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,681, issued on May 12, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Driving assistance device, method, and computer- readable non-volatile storage medium" was invented by Taku Yamazaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving assistance device, which is to be mounted on a vehicle capable of communicating with another vehicle, comprises a calculation unit configured to calculate a travel route of the another vehicle based on a communication result with the another vehicle, an arithmetic processing unit configured to determine whether the self-vehicle will interfere with the another vehicle traveling on the travel route calcula...