ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,876, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assistance controlling apparatus includes: an obtaining unit which obtains locational information of a user terminal; a determining unit which determines whether a user associated with the user terminal tends to cross a road at a place where no pedestrian crosswalk is provided; a storage controlling unit which causes identification information o...