US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Oct. 27 for "Incident handling system for motor vehicles" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,212, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Incident handling system for motor vehicles" was invented by Christopher John Tarchala (Torrance, Calif.) and Dillon Kane (Torrance, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems that allow one or more vehicles to take automated actions in response to a vehicle incident. Vehicle-to-vehicle communications are used to convey information about a vehicle incident to other vehicles in the vicinity of the incident site. The automated actions include warning nearby drivers of the incident by deploying a visual signal or beacon, such as engaging hazard lights ...