US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Nov. 3 for "Vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,598, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle" was invented by Masao Yoshinaga (Tokyo), Chikashi Iizuka (Tokyo) and Keisuke Ohara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle that suppresses excessive warnings during travel in which lane departures occur repeatedly. If the time taken by the host vehicle from a previous lane-departure warning to a current lane departure is within a predetermined period of time, no warning is issued for the current lane departure."

The patent was filed on Sept. 18, 2024, under Application No. 18/888,614.

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