ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,327, issued on April 14, was assigned to ISUZU MOTORS Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Driving assistance apparatus, driving assistance method, and non-transitory storage medium" was invented by Tomoya Sasahara (Fujisawa, Japan) and Noriyuki Tsukada (Fujisawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving assistance apparatus includes a first acquisition part that acquires a first braking force enabling avoidance of a collision between a reversing vehicle that is reversing and a moving object approaching the reversing vehicle, a second acquisition part that acquires a second braking force on the basis of an amount of brake pedal depression...