ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,508, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Assistance control apparatus, assistance control method and computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Takahiro Kurehashi (Saitama, Japan), Yuta Sakagawa (Saitama, Japan) and Moriya Horiuchi (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assistance control apparatus comprises: a first determination unit that determines whether a traffic assistance for a first and a second moving object needs to be performed based on location information of the first and the second moving object; a second determination unit that determines, when it is determined by the fi...