ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,512, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Video recording system and video recording method" was invented by Kohji Kawaura (Tokyo), Naoyuki Urushizaki (Tokyo), Fumio Yamashita (Tokyo) and Yuichi Oneda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This video recording system includes: a recording unit that saves a video file of surroundings of a mobile unit; a transmission control unit that transmits the video file to an external device; a management unit that manages transmission of the video file. The recording unit associates an ascending file number with the video file in ascending order of capture time, and sto...