ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,420, issued on May 5, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Driver warning system" was invented by Aolin Xu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Chenran Li (Fremont, Calif.), Enna Sachdeva (Santa Clara, Calif.), Teruhisa Misu (San Jose, Calif.), Behzad Dariush (San Ramon, Calif.), Kentaro Yamada (Tokyo) and Kikuo Fujimura (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a ranged sensor that generates time-series data indicating positions of objects in an environment surrounding the vehicle, a user interface configured to warn the driver of a predicted collision between the vehicle and one of the objects in the environmen...