US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Sept. 22 for "Driving assistance device, driving assistance method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,634, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Driving assistance device, driving assistance method, and storage medium" was invented by Keisuke Oka (Wako, Japan), Masayuki Nakatsuka (Wako, Japan), Shinya Maruo (Wako, Japan), Shunya Ishikawa (Wako, Japan) and Yohei Kitahara (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving assistance device performs either or both of performing braking control to instruct a vehicle to stop the vehicle when a degree of approach between the vehicle and a target object satisfies a first condition or instructing the vehicle to avoid contact with the target object by steering...