US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Sept. 1 for "Travel assistance device and saddle riding vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,524, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Travel assistance device and saddle riding 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 travel assistance device includes: a detection range element setting unit that sets a plurality of detection range elements aligned in a width direction in a region along sides toward a rear of a host vehicle; an object detection unit that detects presence or absence of an object for each of width positions corresponding to the detection range elements; and a notification unit that notifies t...